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Week 4

A dockworker pushes a block of ice across the floor with a constant force. The mass of the block is calculated from its motion. If the pushing stops, the block continues moving a calculated distance due to its momentum. A crate is accelerated by a horizontal force, and its motion over time is analyzed. On Jupiter's moon Io, the mass and weight of a watermelon are calculated given the gravitational acceleration. The forces between a pushing car and pulled truck are examined using Newton's Third Law. Contact forces between boxes on a frictionless surface are also analyzed. Finally, the motion of a pushed crate is considered, finding coefficients of static and kinetic friction from experimental data.

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Week 4

A dockworker pushes a block of ice across the floor with a constant force. The mass of the block is calculated from its motion. If the pushing stops, the block continues moving a calculated distance due to its momentum. A crate is accelerated by a horizontal force, and its motion over time is analyzed. On Jupiter's moon Io, the mass and weight of a watermelon are calculated given the gravitational acceleration. The forces between a pushing car and pulled truck are examined using Newton's Third Law. Contact forces between boxes on a frictionless surface are also analyzed. Finally, the motion of a pushed crate is considered, finding coefficients of static and kinetic friction from experimental data.

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Week 4 Ac vity

1.) A dockworker applies a constant horizontal force of 80.0 N to a block of ice on a smooth
horizontal floor. The fric onal force is negligible. The block starts from rest and moves 11.0 m in 5.00 s.

a. What is the mass of the block of ice? (90.9091 kg)

b. If the worker stops pushing at the end of 5.00 s, how far does the block move in the next 5.00
s? (22m)

2.) A crate with mass 32.5 kg ini ally at rest on a warehouse floor is acted on by a net horizontal
force of 140 N.

a. What accelera on is produced? (4.30769 m/s2)

b. How far does the crate travel in 10.0 s? (430.769m) c. What is its speed at the end of 10.0 s?
(43.07692 m/s)

3.) At the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, the accelera on due to gravity is 1.81 m/s2. A watermelon
weighs 44.0 N at the surface of the earth.

a. What is the watermelon’s mass on the earth’s surface? (4.48522 kg)

b. What are its mass and weight on the surface of Io? (4.48522kg, 8.11825 N) 3 rd Law

4.) A small car (mass 380 kg) is pushing a large truck (mass 900 kg) due east on a level road. The car
exerts a horizontal force of 1200 N on the truck. What is the magnitude of the force that the truck exerts
on the car? (843.75N)

5.) Boxes A and B are in contact on a horizontal, fric on-less surface. Box A has mass 20.0 kg and
box B has mass 5.0 kg. A horizontal force of 100 N is exerted on box A. What is the magnitude of the
force that box A exerts on box B? (20N)

6.) A stockroom worker pushes a box with mass 11.2 kg on a horizontal surface with a constant
speed of the 3.5m/s. The coefficient of kine c fric on between the box and the surface is 0.20.

a. What horizontal force must the worker apply to maintain the mo on? (21.9744N)

b. If the force calculated in part (a) is removed, how far does the box slide before coming to rest?
(3.1218m)

7.) A 45.0-kg crate of tools rests on a horizontal floor. You exert a gradually increasing horizontal
push on it and observe that the crate just begins to move when your force exceeds 313 N. A er that you
must reduce your push to 208 N to keep it moving at a steady 25 cm/s

a. What are the coefficients of sta c and kine c fric on between the crate and the floor?
b. What push must you exert to give it an accelera on of 1.1m/s^2 c. Suppose you were
performing the same experiment on this crate but were doing it on the moon instead, where
the accelera on due to gravity is 1.62m/s^2

i. What magnitude push would cause it to move?

ii. What would its accelera on be if you maintained the push in part (b)?

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