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Tutorial 3 - Week 4

The document provides 12 example problems related to work and energy involving boxes, cars, springs, balls, and other objects. The problems cover concepts like work, kinetic energy, potential energy, power, and more. Formulas are provided to calculate values like speed, height, distance, force, and power given information about mass, time, angle, and other variables in each problem situation.

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Tutorial 3 - Week 4

The document provides 12 example problems related to work and energy involving boxes, cars, springs, balls, and other objects. The problems cover concepts like work, kinetic energy, potential energy, power, and more. Formulas are provided to calculate values like speed, height, distance, force, and power given information about mass, time, angle, and other variables in each problem situation.

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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Tutorial 3 – Week 4
Work and Energy

1. A box of mass 5 kg is accelerated from rest across a floor at a rate of 2 m/s2 for 7 s. Find the
net work done on the box.
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟒. 𝟗 × 𝟏𝟎𝟐 𝐉)

2. What is the minimum work needed to push a 950 kg car 810 m up along a 9° incline.
a) Ignore friction.
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟏. 𝟐 × 𝟏𝟎𝟔 𝐉)
b) Assume the effecting coefficient of friction retarding the car is 0.25.
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟑 × 𝟏𝟎𝟔 𝐉)

3. An 88 g arrow is fired from a bow whose string exerts an average force of 110 N on the arrow
over a distance of 78 cm. What is the speed of the arrow as it leaves the bow.
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟒𝟒 𝐦/𝐬 )

4. How high will a 1.85 kg rock go if thrown straight up by someone who does 80 J of work on
it? Neglect air resistance.
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟒. 𝟒𝟏 𝐦)

5. A 1 200 kg car rolling on a horizontal surface has speed v = 65 km/h when it strikes a
horizontal coiled spring and is brought to rest in a distance of 2.2 m. What is the spring
stiffness constant of the spring?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟖. 𝟏 × 𝟏𝟎𝟒 𝐍/𝐦)

6. A spring with k = 53 N/m hangs vertically next to a ruler. The end of the spring is next to the
15 cm mark on the ruler. If a 2.5 kg mass is now attached to the end of the spring, where will
the end of the spring line up with the ruler marks?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟔𝟏 𝐜𝐦)

7. A sled is initially given a shove up a frictionless 28° incline. It reaches a maximum vertical
height of 1.35 m higher than where it started. What was its initial speed?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟓. 𝟏𝟒 𝐦/𝐬)

8. A 0.4 kg ball is thrown with a speed of 12 m/s at an angle of 33°.


a) What is its speed at its highest point?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟏𝟎 𝐦/𝐬)
b) How high does it go? (Use conservation of energy and ignore air resistance)
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟐. 𝟐 𝐦)

9. A 21.7 kg child descends a slide 3.5 m high and reaches the bottom with a speed of 2.2 m/s.
How much thermal energy due to friction was generated in this process.
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟔. 𝟗 × 𝟏𝟎𝟐 𝐉)
10. A 145 g baseball is dropped from a tree 13 m above the ground.
a) With what speed would it hit the ground if air resistance could be ignored?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟏𝟔 𝐦/𝐬)
b) If it actually hits the ground with a speed of 8 m/s, what is the average force of air
resistance exerted on it?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟏. 𝟎𝟔 𝐍)

11. If a car generates 18 hp when travelling at a steady 88 km/h, what must be the average force
exerted on the car due to friction and air resistance?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟓. 𝟓 × 𝟏𝟎𝟐 𝐍)

12. A driver notices that her 1 150 kg car slows down from 85 km/h to 65 km/h in about 6 s on
the level when it is in neutral. Approximately what power (watts and hp) is needed to keep the
car travelling at a constant 75 km/h?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟐. 𝟐 × 𝟏𝟎𝟒 𝐖 𝐨𝐫 𝟑 × 𝟏𝟎𝟏 𝐡𝐩)

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