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DYNAMICS UNIT ASSIGNMENT

Name: .

1. In terms of Newton’s First and Second Laws of Motion and static/kinetic


friction, why is it more fuel efficient to drive a car on the highway than in a
city? 2 marks

2. A 62-kg person on skis is going down a hill sloped at 37°. The coefficient of
kinetic friction between the skis and the snow is 0.15. How fast is the skier
going 5.0 s after starting from rest? 3 marks

3. What is the net force acting on the ring below? 3 marks


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4. You are riding a bicycle down the street. You notice that it takes more effort
to bring the bike from rest to a constant velocity than it does to maintain a
constant velocity.
a. Why do you have to push harder on the pedals of a single-speed
bicycle to start it moving than to keep it moving at a constant
velocity? 2 marks

b. Why does the bike slow down and eventually stop if you are not
pedaling? 1 mark

5. A 65-kg diver jumps off of a 10.0-m tower.


a. Find the diver’s velocity when he hits the water. 1 mark

b. The diver comes to a stop 2.0 m below the surface. Find the net
force exerted by the water. 2 marks

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6. What force (magnitude and direction) is necessary to balance out the two
forces below? 3 marks

7. You are shadowing a nurse in the emergency room of a local hospital. An


orderly wheels in a patient who has been in a very serious accident and has
had severe bleeding. The nurse quickly explains to you that in a case like this,
the patient’s bed will be tilted with the head downward to make sure the brain
gets enough blood. She tells you that, for most patients, the largest angle that
the bed can be tilted without the patient beginning to slide off is 32.0° from the
horizontal. Find the coefficient of static friction between a typical patient and
the bed’s sheets. 2 marks

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8. The mass of the Moon is 7.3 x 1022 kg and its radius is 1785 km
a. What is the strength of the gravitational field on the surface of the
Moon? 2 marks

b. How much does a 75 kg astronaut weigh on the moon? 1 mark

9. Two bowling balls each have a mass of 6.8 kg. They are located next to each
other with their centers 21.8 cm apart. What gravitational force do they exert
on each other? 2 marks

10. Jupiter has about 300 times the mass of Earth and about ten times Earth’s
radius. Estimate the size of g on the surface of Jupiter. 2 marks

11. If you weigh 637 N on Earth’s surface, how much would you weigh on the
planet Mars? Mars has a mass of 6.42 x 1023 kg and a radius of 3.40 x 106
m. 3 marks

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12. A hot tub time machine is being pulled into a spinning vortex of terror by the
immense gravitational pull of the vortex. If the hot tub has a mass of 300 kg
and the vortex a mass of 2.5 x 1030 kg, how close could the hot tub time
machine get before its jets (max force of 20 N) could no longer escape? 3
marks

13. Two forces are pulling on a 20 kg object. One pulls it with 50 N [20° S of W]
and the other with 80 N [30° S of E]. If no other forces are present, what will
the magnitude and direction of objects acceleration be? 3 marks

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14. A 80 kg sled is sliding down a snowy hill with an incline of 35. If the
coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.17, what is the acceleration of the sled? 3
marks

15. The two mass shown below have masses of 5.0 kg and 10 kg respectively.
What is the acceleration of the system? 3 marks

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16. A meteor approaching Earth experiences a gravitational force of 100N when it


is 3 Earth radiuses from the centre of Earth. What will the gravitational force
be on the meteor just before it impacts the surface of the planet? 3 marks

17. An 800 kg elevator accelerates upwards with an acceleration of 2.1 m/s 2.


What is the magnitude of the force of tension in the cables? 3 marks

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