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Work and Power

1. Joe runs up a 2.5 meter high flight of stairs at a constant speed in 2.1 seconds. If Joe’s mass is 65.8
kg, determine the work which he did and his power.
2. On a recent adventure trip, Anita went rock climbing. Anita was able to steadily lift her 85 kg body
18 meters in 2 minutes. Determine Anita’s power rating during this portion of the climb.
3. A physics teacher owns a family of squirrels. The squirrels have been trained to do push-up in
repetitive fashion. Being connected to an electrical generator, their ongoing exercise is used to
help power the home. There are 23 squirrels in the family and their average mass is 1.5 kg. They
do work on the “up” part of the push-up, raising their body an average distance of 5.0 cm. If the
squirrels averages 71 push-up per minute, then determine the total amount of work done in one
minute and the power generated by their activity.
4. An elevator motor lifts 715 kg of mass to the height of the fourth floor of an office building (12
meters above ground level) at a constant speed in 10.5 seconds. Determine the power rating of
the motor.
5. A person pushes a block 4 m with a force of 24 N. How much work was done?
6. A person does 15 J of work moving a couch 1.2 m. How much force was used?
7. You lift a box that weighs 50 N to a height of 1.5 m. How much work did you do on the box?
8. Joe uses 14 J of work to lift a weight for 30 seconds. How much power did he use?
9. A machine produce 459 kJ of work in 5 minutes. How much power does the machine produce?
10. Ms. Johnson can lifts a box 15 kg from 0.7 m from the ground to 1.5 above the ground. How much
weight did Ms.Johnson lift? How much power did she use if she lifts the weight in 12 seconds?
11. A machine has power 1550 w can did 465 kJ of work. How much time did it take?
12. A man moves a car 2700 N on a track of 500 m. If the car takes 32 seconds to move the entire
distance, how much power is exerted by that man?
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Work and Power

1. A crane can lifts 120 kg of block of concrete through a vertical height of 24 m in 45 s. What is the power of
the crane?
If the crane has power input to the motor 800 W, what is the efficiency of the motor?
2. The maximum power output of a crane is 12 kW. What is the fastest time in which such a crane can lift a
3500 kg crate a height of 8.0 m?
3. What is your power output if you have a mass 85 kg and you climb a 4.2 m vertical ladder in 6 s?
4. A small snowmobile is rated at 12.0 hp (1 hp = 746 W). It takes a force of 300 N to move a sled load of
wood along pond. How long will it take to tow the wood across the pond if the distance is measured to be
846 m?
5. A engine has efficiency 72%. If the power input of the engine is 10 kW, and the engine was used in 5
minutes. What is the work done by the engine?
6. If an object has a mass of 47kg and it is moved 27 meters in 60 seconds, how much power was used?
7. What is the mass of an object if it took 270J of work to move it 15 meters?
8. What is the efficiency of a machine when the input is 263J and the output is 142J?
9. If it takes 726 watts of power to move a mass 36 meters in 14 seconds, what is the mass?
10. How long does it take to do 432 joules of work with 75 watts of power?

Work, Power, Efficiency

1. How much work is done when a 100N force moves a block 59m?

2. Fred applies 350N force to move his stalled car 40m, how much work did Fred do?

3. A crane can lifts 250 kg of block concrete through vertical height of 32 m in 2.5 minutes. If the power
input to the motor is 2kW, what is the efficiency of the motor?

4. A car has 900 kg of mass, if the car has 1,8 km/minutes of speed. What is the useful power output?

5. How far will 350J raise a block weighing 7N?

6. How much power does it take to do 500J of work in 10sec?

7. How much work can be done by a 300W motor in 60sec?

8. If you put 500J into a machine but only get 400 J out, how efficient is the machine?

9. How far will 490J raise a block weighing 7N?

10. Shelia applies 55N of force to move her chair 2m, how much work did Shelia do?

11. How much power does it take to do 450J of work in 5sec?

12. What is the efficiency of a machine when the input is 263J and the output is 142J?

13. What is the output when the efficiency is 62% and the input is 39J?

14. What is the input work when the output is 2841 J and the efficiency is 15%?

15. If 478 watts of power are used in 14 seconds, how much work was done?

16. How long does it take to do 432 joules of work with 75 watts of power?

17. If an object has a mass of 58 kg and it is moved 22 meters in 3 minutes, how much power was used?

18. What is the mass of an object if it took 360 J of work to move it 15 meters?

19. If it takes 726 watts of power to move a mass 36 meters in 14 seconds, what is the mass?

20. If it takes 20N to move a box, how long will it take a 20W motor to move the box 5m?
Work and Power worksheet
1. You must exert a force of 4.5 N on a book to slide it across a table. If you do 2.7 J of work in the
process, how far have you moved the book?
2. A child pulls a sled up a snow-covered hill. The child does 405 J of work on the sled. If the child
walks 15 m up the hill, how large of a force must the child exert?
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