PSCI 10:30 LAWLER HOMEWORK II

1. For a ball rolling up a ramp and slowing down:

A. What is the direction of velocity (up or down the ramp)?Explain your reasoning.
When the ball moves up the hill, it has -negative acceleration and a positive
velocity uphill. 2 pts
B. What is the direction of the acceleration (up or down the ramp)?Explain your
reasoning.
Down the ramp the ball has negative acceleration

2. Repeat parts A and B from number 1. But for a ball rolling down a ramp and speeding up.
A. What is the direction of velocity (up or down the ramp)?
When the ball is moving downhill, it has positive velocity because it has no
perpendicular chance in direction downhill.
B. What is the direction of the acceleration (up or down the ramp)?

3. Baseball is launched upward from the ground with the velocity of magnitude v = 19.6 m/s

A. How much time until the maximum height is reached? 1.96s 2pts
B. What is the maximum height the ball reaches? 19.6m 2 pts

4. 2020 Hyundai Accent from second gear can accelerate at a = 17 m/s 2. Starting from 10
miles per hour above acceleration what is the speed after 4.5 seconds? 2 pts

5. A hockey puck slides along a horizontal surface of ice with no friction at constant velocity.
Label the following true or false and explain your response in terms of Newton’s laws.

A. There are no external forces acting on a hockey puck.

False: the Gravitational force (downward) and the normal force(upward) are still
acting on the puck
B. There is a non-zero net force acting on a hockey puck.
False: The puck is moving at a constant velocity, so it is not accelerating. So, there
must be no net force acting on the puck.
2 pts

6. Label the following true of false and explain your answer: All external forces acting in
universe have a mass which exerts the force and another mass upon which the force is
exerted. 2 pts

7. You are in a locker room standing at rest on a weight scale. List all the forces acting on
your body. Which mass or object is exerting each force? What is the direction of each of
the external forces acting on your body? What is the net force acting on your body?
 A. When you stand on a bathroom scale, the scale measures the upward support force
(N) that it exerts and gravity.
B. The scale exerts the upward force and the Earth exerts the gravitational force
C. Your net force is the reading on the scale (your weight)
5 pts

8. A block is sliding down a frictionless plane and speeding up.

A. How many external forces are acting on a block?

Gravitational force and the normal force
B. What object is exerting each of the forces? 2 pts
C. What is the direction of each of the external forces?
Parallel and perpendicular 2 pts
D. What is the direction of the net force?
The block can only move parallel to the plane 2 pts