HOMEWORK NO.3 PHY10 First Term 10-11 NAME / SECTION 1.

A 15-kg box is sliding up a 40o inclined plane with an acceleration of 2 m/s2. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the box and the plane is 0.6. In the figure below, what should be the value of the hanging mass m2? The pulley is frictionless. Constant acceleration T T m2 Friction, Newtons Second Law of Motion, Circular Motion and Gravitation

2. A 550N physics student stands on a bathroom scale in an elevator. As the elevator starts moving, the scale reads 450 N. a) Find the acceleration of the elevator (magnitude and direction). b) What is the acceleration if the scale reads 670 N? c) If the scale reads zero, should the student worry? Explain. 3. Sara puts a box into the trunk of her car. Later, she drives around an unbanked curve that has a radius of 48 m. The speed of the car on the curve is 16 m/s, but the box remains stationary relative to the floor of the trunk. Determine the minimum coefficient of static friction for the box on the floor of the trunk. 4. A student builds and calibrates an accelerometer, which she uses to determine the speed of her car around a certain highway curve. The accelerometer is a simple pendulum with a protractor which she attaches to the roof of her car. Her friend observes that the pendulum hangs at an angle of 12 from the vertical when the car has a speed of 23 m/s. Find the radius of curvature 5. Jupiter has a mass that is roughly 320 times that of the Earth and a radius equal to 11 times that of the Earth. What is the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of Jupiter?