Worksheet

1.

When a carpet is beaten with a stick, dust comes out of it, Explain.

2.

How much momentum will a dumb-bell of mass 10 kg transfer to the floor if it falls from a height of 80 cm? Take its downward acceleration to be 10 $m s^{-2}$.

3.

An automobile vehicle has a mass of 1500 kg. What must be the force between the vehicle and road if the vehicle is to be stopped with a negative acceleration of 1.7 $m s^{-2}$?

4.

Two persons manage to push a motorcar of mass 1200 kg at a uniform velocity along a level road. The same motorcar can be pushed by three persons to produce an acceleration of 0.2 $m s^{-2}$. With what force does each person push the motorcar? (Assume that all persons push the motorcar with the same muscular effort.)

5.

A 8000 kg engine pulls a train of 5 wagons, each of 2000 kg, along a horizontal track. If the engine exerts a force of 40000 N and the track offers a friction force of 5000 N, then calculate: (b) the acceleration of the train.

6.

A truck starts from rest and rolls down a hill with a constant acceleration. It travels a distance of 400 m in 20 s. Find its acceleration. Find the force acting on it if its mass is 7 tonnes (Hint: 1 tonne = 1000 kg.)

7.

A 8000 kg engine pulls a train of 5 wagons, each of 2000 kg, along a horizontal track. If the engine exerts a force of 40000 N and the track offers a friction force of 5000 N, then calculate: (a) the net accelerating force

8.

A batsman hits a cricket ball which then rolls on a level ground. After covering a short distance, the ball comes to rest. The ball slows to a stop because

A)

the batsman did not hit the ball hard enough.

B)

velocity is proportional to the force exerted on the ball.

C)

there is a force on the ball opposing the motion.

D)

there is no unbalanced force on the ball, so the ball would want to come to rest.

9.

A stone of 1 kg is thrown with a velocity of 20 $m s^{-1}$ across the frozen surface of a lake and comes to rest after travelling a distance of 50 m. What is the force of friction between the stone and the ice?

10.

Why is it advised to tie any luggage kept on the roof of a bus with a rope?

11.

An object experiences a net zero external unbalanced force. Is it possible for the object to be travelling with a non-zero velocity? If yes, state the conditions that must be placed on

12.

A hockey ball of mass 200 g travelling at 10 $m s^{-1}$ is struck by a hockey stick so as to return it along its original path with a velocity at 5 $m s^{-1}$. Calculate the magnitude of change of momentum occurred in the motion of the hockey ball by the force applied by the hockey stick.

13.

According to the third law of motion when we push on an object, the object pushes back on us with an equal and opposite force. If the object is a massive truck parked along the roadside, it will probably not move. A student justifies this by answering that the two opposite and equal forces cancel each other. Comment on this logic and explain why the truck does not move.

14.

A motorcar of mass 1200 kg is moving along a straight line with a uniform velocity of 90 km/h. Its velocity is slowed down to 18 km/h in 4 s by an unbalanced external force. Calculate the acceleration and change in momentum. Also calculate the magnitude of the force required.

15.

The following is the distance-time table of an object in motion:

The following is the distance-time table of an object in motion ...

(a) What conclusion can you draw about the acceleration? Is it constant, increasing, decreasing, or zero?

16.

Using a horizontal force of 200 N, we intend to move a wooden cabinet across a floor at a constant velocity. What is the friction force that will be exerted on the cabinet?

17.

A hammer of mass 500 g, moving at 50 $m s^{-1}$, strikes a nail. The nail stops the hammer in a very short time of 0.01 s. What is the force of the nail on the hammer?

18.

What is the momentum of an object of mass $m$, moving with a velocity $v$?

A)

$(mv)^2$

B)

$mv^2$

C)

$\frac{1}{2} mv^2$

D)

$mv$

19.

A bullet of mass 10 g travelling horizontally with a velocity of 150 $m s^{-1}$ strikes a stationary wooden block and comes to rest in 0.03 s. Calculate the distance of penetration of the bullet into the block. Also calculate the magnitude of the force exerted by the wooden block on the bullet.

20.

An object of mass 1 kg travelling in a straight line with a velocity of 10 $m s^{-1}$ collides with, and sticks to, a stationary wooden block of mass 5 kg. Then they both move off together in the same straight line. Calculate the total momentum just before the impact and just after the impact. Also, calculate the velocity of the combined object.