Physics Worksheet

1. A race car makes one lap around a track of radius 50 m in 9.0 s.

4a) What is the average velocity?
b) What was the car’s centripetal acceleration?
2. A 515 kg roller coaster is at the bottom of a loop with a radius of 10m. If
the speed at the bottom of the loop is 20 m/s, what is the force of the
track pushing up on the vehicle at this point?
3. A car turns on a slippery banked road of angle 45° to the horizontal. The
maximum speed allowed on the road is 25 m/s. Find the maximum radius
when the speed is maximum?
4. The turns at the Daytona International Speedway have a maximum radius
of 316 m and are steeply banked at 31 degrees. Suppose these turns were
frictionless. As what speed would the cars have to travel around them?
5. Two wheels A and B which are on one axis have radius 2 cm and 8 cm, as
seen in the picture below. If the linear speed of wheel A is 6 m/s, specify:

a) angular velocity of wheel A

b) linear speed and angular velocity of wheel B
6. Two wheels are connected by chains. The smaller wheel with 8 cm radius
is rotated at 100 rad/s. If the larger wheel radius is 15 cm, what is the
linear speed of the two wheels? And what is the greater angular speed of
the wheels?

7. Two cylinders intersect with each other as shown below. The radius of
each cylinder is equal to RA = 50 cm and RB = 30 cm. Then cylinder B is
connected to the drive engine so that it can rotate with a fixed angular
speed of 5 rad/s. If both cylinders can rotate without slips, determine the
linear speed of cylinders A and B and the angular velocity of cylinder A!

8. What gravitational force does the moon produce on the Earth which
mass is 6 x 1024 kg their centers are 3.88 x 108 m apart and the moon has
a mass of 7.34 x 1022 kg?

9. The Earth period around the sun is 1 year and the Jupiter period is
around 12 years. The distance ratio of Earth to sun and Jupiter to the sun

10. If a motor applies 1500 N of force to a rollercoaster car to lift it up a 22m

hill in 0.60 minutes, what is the power it produces?

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11. How much work can a 22 kW car engine do in 60 s if it is 60% efficient?

12. Calculate torque at A

13. Look at the picture bellow