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This document is a physics worksheet for Class IX students at Happy Home School, focusing on forces and their applications. It includes various problems related to Newton's laws, resultant forces, acceleration, and braking distances. The worksheet aims to enhance students' understanding of fundamental physics concepts through practical scenarios.

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Worksheet - Forces

This document is a physics worksheet for Class IX students at Happy Home School, focusing on forces and their applications. It includes various problems related to Newton's laws, resultant forces, acceleration, and braking distances. The worksheet aims to enhance students' understanding of fundamental physics concepts through practical scenarios.

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Happy Home School – O Level Gulshan Campus

Physics Worksheet – Forces (Class IX) According to Newton’s third law, what is the forward force on the
propeller due to the water?
Name: _____________________ Date: _______________

1. Which combination of forces produces a resultant force acting towards


the right? 5. A car of mass 800 kg has a forward acceleration of 2.5 m/s2. A frictional
force of 1200 N opposes the motion of the car.
What is the driving force due to the engine of the car?

2. A train of mass 240000 kg is travelling at a speed of 60 m/ s. The brakes 6. A body slides down a frictionless slope, as shown.
are applied and it decelerates for 10 minutes until it comes to rest. As the body presses on the surface, the surface pushes back on the body.
What is the average resultant force? In which direction does the surface push back on the body?

3. A free-fall skydiver jumps from a plane. As he falls there is a force acting


upwards and a force acting downwards on his body. These produce a
resultant force.
Before he reaches terminal velocity, how do the sizes of the forces
change?

7. Fig. 9.1 shows a car braking on a road and coming to rest.


(a) Explain what is meant by
(i) the thinking distance, [1]
(ii) the braking distance. [1]
4. The propeller on a boat pushes water backwards with a force of 2000 N. (b) An engineer conducts a test on the car
The boat moves through the water against a total resistive force of 1800N. and finds that the braking distance is
greater when the car is fully loaded
than when it is unloaded.
(i) Apart from the road conditions, state
what must be kept the same in the test. [1]
(ii) Explain why the car has a greater braking distance when fully loaded. [1]
(c) State and explain how one road condition affects the braking distance of (c) At another time, the car is travelling at speed u. It then accelerates for
the car. Use ideas about friction in your answer. [2] 5.0 s with an acceleration of 1.6 m/s2, and reaches a speed of 20 m/s.
Calculate the value of u. [2]
8. Fig. 1.1 shows the directions of four forces acting on a racing car as it
travels in a horizontal straight line. 9. Fig. 9.1 shows an astronaut in space near to a space station in orbit above
the Earth.
The total mass of the
astronaut and all his
equipment is 160 kg.
The astronaut is initially
at rest relative to the
space station but he is
then pulled towards the
space station by the rope.
(a) Draw a line from each box on the left to the correct description of each His acceleration towards
force. [1] the space station is
0.35 m/s2 for 1.2 s.
(a) Calculate
(i) the resultant force that causes a mass of 160 kg to accelerate at 0.35 m/s2,
(ii) the speed at which the astronaut is travelling after 1.2 s. [4]
(b) The resultant force on the astronaut is constant for 1.2 s, but then it
decreases to zero instantly as the rope becomes slack.
(i) On Fig. 9.2, sketch the speed-time graph for the astronaut for the first
3.0 s of his motion. [1]
(ii) Describe how the distance
(b) The table shows the sizes of the forces acting on the car at one time. moved by the astronaut
during the first 3.0 s may be
found using the speed-time
graph. [2]
The gravitational field strength g is 10 N/kg.
Calculate
(i) the mass of the car, [1]
(ii) the resultant force on the car, [1]
(iii)the acceleration of the car. [2]

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