Work, Energy & Power 2016

Enabling Objectives

 Describe power
- Define power
- Investigate human power
- Solve problems relating of power
 Explain efficiency
- Define efficiency
- Solve problems on efficiency

 Power is the rate of doing work.

 Unit of power is watt (W) = J/s

Power
Example:
 A boy of mass 40 kg takes 15s to run up a flight of stairs of height
10 m. What is his average power? (g = 10m/s 2)

 Efficiency of a system is known as the ratio of the useful energy

output to the total energy input.
 It is expressed as a percentage.

Example:
An electric motor is used to raise a weight of 100 N through a vertical
distance of 2.0 m. The total energy supplied to the motor is 500 J. Calculate
a) The useful energy output
Efficiency

b) The efficiency of the motor

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Topic : Work, energy, power and efficiency

(Take g = 10m/s2)

1. Which of the following units is a symbol for the unit of energy?

i. J ii. kWh iii. W
A. i only B. i and ii only
C. i and iii only D. i , ii and iii

2. Which of the following units is a symbol for the unit of power?

i. J ii. kWh iii. W
A. i only B. i and ii only
C. i and iii only D. i , ii and iii

3. A man lifts a box of mass 2 kg vertically upwards by 3 m. Given that he takes 6 s to do the
work, what is the power generated by the man?
4. A 0.5 kg stone takes 4 s to drop from a 80 m high building. What is the power of the stone
during the drop?
5. A 100 W spotlight has an efficiency of 40%. How much light energy can the spotlight produce
in an hour?
6. A battery supplies 500 J of electrical energy to a motor. The motor produces 200 J of heat.
What is the maximum efficiency of the motor?
7. The figure shows a boy of mass 60kg and a girl of mass 50kg climbing up the stairs. The boy
took 10s to reach the top while the girl took 12s. Calculate the power generated by the boy
and the girl

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