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The document contains a series of performance tasks related to physics concepts including rectilinear motion, free falling bodies, projectile motion, curvilinear motion, angular motion, and work-energy principles. Each task requires solving specific problems and providing answers, often involving calculations of distance, speed, acceleration, and forces. Students are expected to explain their solutions face-to-face in class.

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Performance Tasks

The document contains a series of performance tasks related to physics concepts including rectilinear motion, free falling bodies, projectile motion, curvilinear motion, angular motion, and work-energy principles. Each task requires solving specific problems and providing answers, often involving calculations of distance, speed, acceleration, and forces. Students are expected to explain their solutions face-to-face in class.

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PERFORMANCE TASKS (BOARD WORK)

Solve the problem and explain it in the class face to face. Each number corresponds to student
seat number.

RECTILINEAR MOTION WITH UNIFORM ACCELERATION


1. A car travels 46.8 kph for 10 minutes, 72 kph for 5 minutes, and 90 kph for 10 minutes.
(a). What total distance in meters did the car travel?
(b) What is the average speed of the car in meters per second?
2 A car and a truck leave the same place and travel in the same direction along a straight
road. The car starting from rest speeds up to 24 kph with constant acceleration of 1/6
m/s2, and runs at this speed. The truck leaves 40 seconds after the car, with a uniform
accelerations of 1/3 m/s2 from rest to attain a speed of 48 kph and then travels at the
speed. How soon after the car started will the truck overtake the car? Ans: 99.6 sec.
3. Trains can run at a normal speed of 27 m/s . They can decelerate at 1 m/s2 and
accelerate at 0.5 m/s2. From the time the brakes are applied from normal speed to the
time regains normal speed, determine:
(a). the time lost if two minutes are used while staying at the station where it stops
(b) the total distance travelled. [Ans: (a) 160.5 sec (b) 1093.5 m]
FREE FALLING BODIES
4. A stone is dropped down a well and 5 sec later the sound of the flash is heard. If the
velocity of sound is 1120 ft/sec:
(a) What is the depth of the well? [Ans 353 ft]
(b) What is the time for the ball to reach the water surface?
(c) What is the time for the sound to travel the distance equal to the depth of the well?
5. A stone is thrown vertically upward from the ground with a velocity of 48.9 fps. One
second later another stone is thrown vertically upward with a velocity of 96.6 fps. How
far above the ground will the stones be at the same level? [Ans: 36.06 ft]

RECTILINEAR MOTION WITH VARIABLE ACCELERATION


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6. The motion of a particle is given particle is given by the equation s = 2 t 4 -+ 2 t 2,
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where s in m and t in sec. Compute the values of v and a when t= 2 sec. [ Ans: v= 70 m/s;
a= 98 m/s2]
7. The velocity of particle moving along x axis is defined by v= x3- 4x2 + 6x where v is m/s
and x in meter. Compute the value of the velocity and acceleration when x = 2 m. [Ans:
v= 4 m/s ; a= 8 m/s2]
8. The motion of a particle is governed is governed by the relation a= 4t2 where a is in m/s2
and t in seconds. When t is zero, v = 2 m/s and s= 4 m. Find the values of v and s when t
= 2 sec. [Ans: v= 12.67 m/s, s= 13.13 m]

PROJECTILE MOTION:

9. A stone is thrown from a hill at an angle of 600 to the horizontal with an initial velocity of
30 m/s. After hitting the level ground of the base of the hill the stone has covered a
horizontal distance of 150 m, how high is the hill? Ans. 223.3 m
10. A shell leaves a mortar with a muzzle of 150 m/s directed upward at 600 with the
horizontal. Determine the position of the shell and its velocity 20 sec after firing. How
high will it rise?
11. A projectile is fired with an initial velocity of 240 m/s at target b located 600 above the
gun at A and a horizontal distance of 3600 m. neglecting air resistance, determine the
value of the firing angle θ .
12. In a gymnasium with a ceiling 30 ft high, a player throws a ball towards a wall 80 ft away.
If he releases the ball 5 ft above the floor with initial velocity of55 ff/s, determine the
highest point which the ball could strike the wall. Ans. 18.2 ft.

CURVILINEAR MOTION

13. A particle has such a curvilinear motion that is X coordinate is defined by X= 5t3- 105t
where X is in inches and t in seconds. When t= 2 sec, the total acceleration is 75 ft/s. I f
the Y of the acceleration is constant and the particle starts from rest at the origin when
t=0, determine its total velocity when t= 4 sec. Ans V= 225 in/s
14. The trajectory of a rocket makes an angle of 200 below the horizontal when it is moving
at 5,400 m/s. The truster engine gives it a constant horizontal acceleration of 6 m/s 2 and
the downward acceleration is the acceleration due to gravity. Determine:
a. The rate at which the speed is changing. Ans. 9 m/s2
b. The normal acceleration. Ans. 7 m/s2
c. The radius of curvature. Ans 4050 m
15. A car starts from rest at point A and increases its speed at constant rate as it enters a
curve. The magnitude of the total acceleration of the car as it passes point B, which is
400/3 m along the curve from point A, is 2.5 m/s2. The radius of the curvature at point B
is 200m.
a. Determine the normal and tangential components of the acceleration at point B. Ans
an= 2 m/s2, at = 1.5 m/s2
b. If the tangential acceleration at point B is directed downward to the right at angle of
36.870 below the horizontal, and the normal acceleration is also directed downward,
determine the rectangular components of the acceleration at point B. Ans: a y = 2.5
m/s2.

ANGULAR MOTION

16. A flywheel 6ft in diameter accelerates from rests at the constant rate of 4 rpm per sec.
Compute the normal and tangential components of the acceleration of a particle on the
rim of the flywheel after 10 sec? Ans an= 52.92 fps2 at= 1.26 fps2
17. The rim of 60- in wheel on a brakeshoe testing machine has a speed of 60mph when the
brake is applied. It comes to rest, after the rim has travelled a linear distance of 600 ft.
What is the constant angular acceleration of the wheel and how many revolutions the
brake is applied?
18. When the angular velocity of 4-ft diameter pulley is 3 rad per sec, the total acceleration
of a point on its rim is 30 fps2. Determine the angular acceleration of the pulley at this
instant. Ans 12 rad/s2
19. Determine the horizontal and vertical components of the acceleration of point B on the
rim of the flywheel shown. At the given position ω = 4 rad per sec and α = 12 rad per
sec2. Both clockwise. Ah= 36 fps2 av= 48 fps2

20. A pulley has a constant angular acceleration of 3 rad per sec2. When the angular velocity
is 2 rad per sec, the total acceleration of the point on the rim of the pully is 10fps 2.
Compute the diameter of the pulley. Ans. d= 4ft.

21. A constant drawbar pull is exerted on a 5000 kg train. The train resistance is constant at
1 N/kg of train. The train starts up at 1% grade with a speed of 72 kph and decelerates at
constant speed of 36 kph when it is 500 up the grade. Determine the maximum horse
power developed during the period.

22. A box weighing 80 N is pulled along a horizontal surface by a force of 15 N which is


directed at 200 above the horizontal. If the box started from rest and the coefficient of
friction is 0.15. Find the kinetic energy after it has travelled a distance of 10 m.

23. Neglecting friction, how much work must be done to increase the speed of car from 72
kph to 144 kph in distance of 200m if the car has a mass of 2000 kg.
24. A 1 kg brick is thrown along a horizontal surface with an initial velocity of 2 m/s. The
coefficient of friction between the brick and the surface is 0.20. What is the speed (in
m/s) of the brick after traveling a distance of 0.80 m?
25. A 3200-kg car goes up a 30ascending road with uniform speed of 45 kph. Find the power
developed by the motor in 5 seconds.

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