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This document discusses Newton's laws of motion and provides example problems involving forces, mass, and acceleration. 1. It begins with questions about Newton's laws, including why a child seems to fall backward in a pulled wagon and the motion of a box in an accelerating truck. 2. Multiple practice problems are then provided involving calculating forces, masses, tensions, and accelerations using Newton's laws for situations like accelerating a sled or car, forces on stacked boxes, and skydivers under varying resistive forces. 3. Vectors and forces at angles are also covered through problems finding tensions in hanging buckets and the various forces on a person pushing a lawn mower at an angle.

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Tutorial 6 Forces

This document discusses Newton's laws of motion and provides example problems involving forces, mass, and acceleration. 1. It begins with questions about Newton's laws, including why a child seems to fall backward in a pulled wagon and the motion of a box in an accelerating truck. 2. Multiple practice problems are then provided involving calculating forces, masses, tensions, and accelerations using Newton's laws for situations like accelerating a sled or car, forces on stacked boxes, and skydivers under varying resistive forces. 3. Vectors and forces at angles are also covered through problems finding tensions in hanging buckets and the various forces on a person pushing a lawn mower at an angle.

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Dynamics: Newton’s Laws of Motion

Questions
1. Why does a child in a wagon seem to fall backward when you give the wagon a sharp pull forward?

2. A box rests on the (frictionless) bed of a truck. The truck driver starts the truck and accelerates

forward. The box immediately starts to slide toward the rear of the truck bed. Discuss the motion of

the box, in terms of Newton’s laws, as seen (a) by Mary standing on the ground beside the truck,

and (b) by Chris who is riding on the truck (Fig. 4–35).

3. If the acceleration of an object is zero, are no forces acting on it? Explain.

Problems

Newton’s Laws, Gravitational Force, Normal Force

1. (I) What force is needed to accelerate a child on a sled (total mass  60.0 kg) at 1.25 m s 2 ?

2. (I) A net force of 265 N accelerates a bike and rider at 2.30 m s 2 . What is the mass of the bike

and rider together?

3. (I) How much tension must a rope withstand if it is used to accelerate a 960-kg car horizontally

along a frictionless surface at 1.20 m s 2 ?

4. (II) A 20.0-kg box rests on a table. (a) What is the weight of the box and the normal force

acting on it? (b) A 10.0-kg box is placed on top of the 20.0-kg box. Determine the normal force

that the table exerts on the 20.0-kg box and the normal force that the 20.0-kg box exerts on the

10.0-kg box.

5. (II) What average force is required to stop an 1100-kg car in 8.0 s if the car is traveling at

95 km h ?

6. (II) A 0.140-kg baseball traveling 35.0 m s strikes the catcher’s mitt, which, in bringing the

ball to rest, recoils backward 11.0 cm. What was the average force applied by the ball on the

glove?

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7. (II) (a) What is the acceleration of two falling sky divers (mass 132 kg including parachute)

when the upward force of air resistance is equal to one-fourth of their weight? (b) After popping

open the parachute, the divers descend leisurely to the ground at constant speed. What now is

the force of air resistance on the sky divers and their parachute? See Fig. 4–39.

Newton’s Laws and Vectors

8. (I) A box weighing 77.0 N rests on a table. A rope tied to the box runs vertically upward over a

pulley and a weight is hung from the other end (Fig. 4–40). Determine the force that the table

exerts on the box if the weight hanging on the other side of the pulley weighs (a) 30.0 N, (b)

60.0 N, and (c) 90.0 N.

9. (I) A 650-N force acts in a northwesterly direction. A second 650-N force must be exerted in

what direction so that the resultant of the two forces points westward? Illustrate your answer

with a vector diagram.

(II) One 3.2-kg paint bucket is hanging by a massless cord from another 3.2-kg paint bucket, also

hanging by a massless cord, as shown in Fig. 4–44. (a) If the buckets are at rest, what is the

tension in each cord? (b) If the two buckets are pulled upward with an acceleration of

1.60 m s 2 by the upper cord, calculate the tension in each cord.

(II) A person pushes a 14.0-kg lawn mower at constant speed with a force of F  88.0 N directed

along the handle, which is at an angle of 45.0º to the horizontal (Fig. 4–45). (a) Draw the free-

body diagram showing all forces acting on the mower. Calculate (b) the horizontal friction force

on the mower, then (c) the normal force exerted vertically upward on the mower by the ground.

(d) What force must the person exert on the lawn mower to accelerate it from rest to 1.5 m s in

2.5 seconds, assuming the same friction force?

10. (II) At the instant a race began, a 65-kg sprinter exerted a force of 720 N on the starting block

at a 22º angle with respect to the ground. (a) What was the horizontal acceleration of the

sprinter? (b) If the force was exerted for 0.32 s, with what speed did the sprinter leave the

starting block?

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(II) A 15.0-kg box is released on a 32º incline and accelerates down the incline at 0.30 m s 2 . Find

the friction force impeding its motion.

11. A person has a reasonable chance of surviving an automobile crash if the deceleration is no

more than 30 “g’s.” Calculate the force on a 70-kg person undergoing this acceleration. What

distance is traveled if the person is brought to rest at this rate from 100 km h ?

12. of rope between the three climbers. Ignore friction between the ice and the fallen climbers.

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