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Mse Phys ch4 Egs f17 PDF
Mse Phys ch4 Egs f17 PDF
Chapter 4 examples: Newton’s Laws, Weight and mass, Gravity, Normal force, FBDs, various examples
1. (From Halliday and Resnick SP 5.01) Parts A, B, and C show three situations in which forces act on a
puck that moves over frictionless ice along the x‐axis, in one‐dimensional motion. The puck’s mass
is m = 0.20 kg.
A. Force F1 is 4.0 N and is directed in the positive x
direction. What is the acceleration of the puck?
B. Force F1 as well as F2 act on the puck. Force F2 is 2.0
N force acting in the negative x‐direction. What is
the acceleration of the puck?
C. Force F2 as well as F3 act on the puck. Force F3 is a
1.0 N force acting at 30o to the positive x‐direction.
What is the acceleration of the puck? (Force F3 is
two dimensional, but the motion is only one
dimensional.)
2. What average net force is required to bring a 1500.0‐kg car to rest from a speed of 100.0 km/h
within a distance of 55.0 m?
3. A fish is being yanked upwards out of the water using a fishing line that breaks when the tension
reaches 180 N. The string snaps when the acceleration of the fish is observed to be 12.2 m/s2.
a) Draw a free‐body diagram for the fish.
b) Find the mass of the fish.
4. In an Olympic figure skating event, a 65‐kg male skater pushes a 45‐kg female skater, causing her
to accelerate at a rate of 2.0 m/s2 toward the judges. Assume frictional forces are negligible.
What is the acceleration of the male skater? What is the direction of this acceleration (toward or
away from the judges)? How did you use Newton’s Third Law?
5. A friend has given you a special gift, a box of mass 10.0 kg with a mystery surprise inside. The box
is resting on the smooth (frictionless) horizontal surface of a table. (a) Determine the weight of
the box and the normal force exerted on it by the table. (b) Now your friend pushes down on the
box with a force of 40.0 N. Again determine the normal force exerted on the box by the table. (c) If
your friend pulls upward on the box with a force of 40.0 N, what now is the normal force exerted
on the box by the table? (d) Now your friend pulls the box towards
her with a force FP = 40.0 N, exerted at a 30.0° angle as shown. In
this case, calculate the upward force FN exerted by the table on the
box, as well as the acceleration of the box.
6. A 65‐kg woman descends in an elevator that briefly accelerates at 0.20g downward. She stands on
a scale that reads in kg. (a) During this acceleration, what is her weight and what does the scale
read? (b) What does the scale read when the elevator descends at a constant speed of 2.0 m/s?
7. A system of two objects suspended over a pulley by a flexible cable is
sometimes referred to as an Atwood’s machine. Here, let the mass of the
counterweight be 1000 kg. Assume the mass of the empty elevator is 850 kg,
and its mass when carrying four passengers is 1150 kg. For the latter case
calculate (a) the acceleration of the elevator and (b) the tension in the cable.
8. A mover is trying to lift a piano (slowly) up to a second‐story apartment. He is
using a rope looped over two pulleys as shown. What force must he exert on
the rope to slowly lift the piano’s 2000‐N weight?
9. A small mass m hangs from a thin string and can swing
like a pendulum. You attach it above the window of
your car as shown. What angle does the string make (a)
when the car accelerates at a constant a = 1.20 m/s2,
and (b) when the car moves at constant velocity, v = 90
km/h?
10. A box of mass m is placed on a smooth incline that makes an angle θ
with the horizontal. (a) Determine the normal force on the box. (b)
Determine the box’s acceleration. (c) Evaluate for a mass m = 10 kg
and an incline of θ = 30°.
11. A child’s 2.00 kg sled is released from rest on 25o frictionless incline. How far does the sled travel
in the first second? In the next second?
12. Two blocks of mass 5.00 kg and 2.00 kg are placed in contact with one another on a smooth
horizontal surface. A constant horizontal force of 10.0 N is applied to the 5.00‐kg mass, as shown.
a) Draw a free‐body diagram for:
i. The system of two blocks
ii. The 5‐kg block
iii. The 2‐kg block
b) Identify any action‐reaction pairs from your FBDs.
c) Find the acceleration of the blocks
d) Find the force of the 5.00 kg block on the 2.00‐kg block
e) Find the force of the 2.00‐kg block on the 5.00‐kg block
F =10.0N
5 kg 2
kg
13. Two masses, sitting on a horizontal frictionless surface are joined by a rope. They are pulled by a
15 N force. Find the tension in the rope and the acceleration of the masses.
14. Your friend has been hired to design the interior of a special executive express elevator for a new
office building. The elevator will stop with an acceleration of g/3 in case of an emergency. The
management would like a decorative lamp hanging from the unusually high ceiling of the elevator.
He designs a lamp which has three sections which hang one directly below the other. Each section
is attached to the previous one by a single thin wire, which also carries the electric current. The
lamp is also attached to the ceiling by a single wire. Each section of the lamp weighs 7.0 N.
Because the idea is to make each section appear that it is floating on air without support, he wants
to use the thinnest wire possible. Unfortunately, the thinner the wire is, the weaker it is. Since he
knows that you are taking physics, he asks you to calculate the force on each wire in case of an
emergency stop.