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WS5 - Work, Energy, Power

This document contains 11 physics problems involving work, energy, power, forces, friction, and motion. The problems cover topics like constant forces, springs, inclined planes, and braking distances. Solutions require calculating speeds, distances, energies, powers, efficiencies, and times using concepts like work, kinetic energy, and coefficients of friction.

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WS5 - Work, Energy, Power

This document contains 11 physics problems involving work, energy, power, forces, friction, and motion. The problems cover topics like constant forces, springs, inclined planes, and braking distances. Solutions require calculating speeds, distances, energies, powers, efficiencies, and times using concepts like work, kinetic energy, and coefficients of friction.

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ERC00X

Physics

WS5-Work, Energy and Power

Solve the following:


1) A 6.0‐kg block initially at rest is pulled to the right along a horizontal, frictionless surface by a
constant horizontal force of 12 N. Find the speed of the block after it has moved 3.0 m.

2) An elevator car has a mass of 1600 kg and is carrying passengers having a combined mass of
200 kg. A constant friction force of 4000 N retards its motion. How much power must a motor
deliver to lift the elevator car and its passengers at a constant speed of 3.00 m/s?

3) A 10.0 kg mass is dropped from a tall building. During the first second of the fall, what was the
average power exerted by gravity? What was the average power exerted by gravity during the first
5.00 seconds of the fall?

4) A 10.0 kg mass sliding on a frictionless horizontal surface at 7.00 m/s hits a spring that is
attached to a wall. The spring has a spring constant of 5000 N/m.
a) Determine the maximum compression of the spring.
b) Determine the speed of the box in the above problem when the spring had a compression of
0.100 m
c) Suppose the box springs back off of the spring with no loss of energy, after sliding on the
frictionless surface, it encounters another level surface with a coefficient of friction of 0.200. How
far does the box slide on this surface before coming to rest?

5) In the diagram below the pulley is frictionless. Mass 1 is 3.00 kg and mass 2 is 7.00 kg, and the
two masses are released from rest. After the two masses have each moved 0.500 m, what are
their velocities?

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6) A 6.00 kg mass is acted on by a net force shown in the graph below.
a) if the object started from rest, what is its velocity after it has moved 10.0 m?
b) If the object in initially was moving at 5.00 m/s in the direction of the net force, what was its
speed after it had moved a distance of 6.00 m?

7) A 2.0 kg box slides down a frictionless incline as shown below.


Determine the following:
A) As the box slides, determine the amount of work done by:
i) the incline (normal force)
ii) gravity
B) What is the net work done on the box as it slides?
C) What is the final kinetic energy of the box (at the bottom of the incline)?

D) What is the final velocity of the box at the bottom of the incline?

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8) Now let’s say that there is friction. As the box slides, friction exerts a force of 3.00 N opposite its
motion
A) As the box slides, determine the amount of work done by:
i) the incline (normal force)
ii) gravity
iii) friction
B) What is the net work done on the box as it slides?
C) What is the final velocity of the box at the bottom of the incline?

9) A car driving at a speed of 20.0 m/s on level ground slams on its brakes. If it skids for 32.0 m
before stopping, what is the coefficient of kinetic friction between its tires and the road

10) A raindrop of radius 2 mm falls from a height of 500 m above the ground. It falls with
decreasing acceleration (due to viscous resistance of the air) until at half its original height, it
attains its maximum (terminal) speed, and moves with uniform speed thereafter.

a) What is the work done by the gravitational force on the drop in the first and second half of its
journey?

b) What is the work done by the resistive force in the entire journey if its speed on reaching the
ground is 10 ms-1?

11) A pump on the ground floor of a building can pump up water to fill a tank of volume 30m3 in 15
min. If the tank is 40 m above the ground, and the efficiency of the pump is 30%, how much
electric power is consumed by the pump

12) Two inclined frictionless tracks, one gradual and the other steep meet at A from where two
stones are allowed to slide down from rest, one on each track (Fig). Will the stones reach the
bottom at the same time? Will they reach there at the same speed? Explain. Given θ1 = 30°, θ2 =
60°, and h = 10 m, what are the speeds and times taken by the two stones?

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