PHYS 2050 – UNIVERSITY PHYSICS I

Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 9th edition, Serway & Jewett

Chapter 5: THE LAWS OF MOTION

READING ASSIGNMENT: all

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Problems: 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 35, 36, 40, 42, 43, 47, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 60,
61, 63, 65, 66, 80, 87
(Underlined problems will be worked out in class.)

Answers to even-numbered problems for Chapter 5:

6) (a) -4.47x1015 m/s2; (b) +2.09x10-10 N 8) (a) 0; (b) (0)

16) 1.59 m/s2 at 65.2o N of E 18) (a) 1/3; (b) 0.750 m/s2

22) (a) 181o CCW from x axis; (b) 11.2 kg; 28) (a) 49.0 N; (b) 49.0 N; (c) 98.0 N; (d) 24.5 N
(c) 37.5 m/s; (d) -37.5 i – 0.893 j m/s

30) (b) -2.54 m/s2; (c) 3.19 m/s 36) (a) T1 = 31.5 N, T2 = 37.5 N, T3 = 49.0 N
(b) T1 = 113 N, T2 = 56.6 N, T3 = 98.0 N

40) (b) 6.30 m/s2; (c) T = 31.5 N 42) (b) 3.57 m/s2; (c) 26.7 N; (d) 7.14 m/s

50) (a) 0.529 m below initial level; (b) 7.40 m/s upward 52) (a) 14.7 m; (b) neither mass affects answer

54) (a) 256 m; (b) 42.7 m 60) (b) 55.2o; (b) 167 N

66) (a) Pmax = 48.6 N, Pmin = 31.7 N
(b) For P > 48.6 N block slides up, for P < 31.7
block slides down; (c) Pmin = 62.7 N,
For P > 62.7 N block cannot slide up, for
P < 62.7 block slides down
80) (a) At any instant they have the same velocity
and acceleration; (b) 1.61x104 N;
(c) 2.95x104 N