IPC Practice Questions for Chapter 3 and 4

1. A squirrel has a mass of 0.5 kg. What is its weight?

Fg = mg = 0.5 kg × 9.8 N/kg = 4.9 N

2. A boy weighs 400 N. What is his mass?

m = Fg/g = 400 N/9.8 N/kg = 41 kg

Challenge An astronaut has a mass of 100 kg and has a weight of 370 N on Mars.
What is the gravitational strength on Mars?

gMars = Fg/m = 370 N / 100 kg = 3.7 N/kg

1. A couch is pushed with a horizontal force of 80 N and moves a distance of

5 m across the floor. How much work is done in moving the couch?

400 J

2. How much work do you do when you lift a 100-N child 0.5 m?

50 J

3. The brakes on a car do 240,000 J of work in stopping the car. If the car
travels a distance of 40 m while the brakes are being applied, how large is the
average force that the brakes exert on the car?

6,000 N

Challenge The force needed to lift an object is equal in size to the gravitational force on
the object. How much work is done in lifting an object that has a mass of 5 kg a vertical
distance of 2 m?

W = Fd = mgd = (5 kg)(9.8 N/kg)(2 m) = 98 J

11. If a helicopter's mass is 4,500 kg and the net force on it is 18,000 N

upward, what is its acceleration?

a = Fnet/m = 18,000 N upward/4,500 kg = 4.0 m/s2 upward

12. What is the net force on a dragster with a mass of 900 kg if its
acceleration is 32.0 m/s2 west?

Fnet = ma = 900 kg × 32.0 m/s2 west= 28,800 N west

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13. A car pulled by a tow truck has an acceleration of 2.0 m/s 2 east. What is
the mass of the car if the net force on the car is 3,000 N east?

m = Fnet/a = 3,000 N east / 2.0 m/s2 east = 1,500 kg

Challenge What is the net force on a sky diver falling with a constant velocity of 10 m/s
downward?

If the velocity is constant, the acceleration is zero. Then by the second law, the net force
must be zero.

16. A baseball with a mass of 0.15 kg is moving at a speed of 40.0 m/s. What
is the baseball's kinetic energy from this motion?

120 J

Challenge A 1,500-kg car doubles its speed from 50 km/h to 100 km/h. By how many
times does the kinetic energy from the car's forward motion increase?

The kinetic energy from the car's motion is 4 times as great when that car is moving at
100 km/h than when that car is moving at 50 km/h.