PHYSICS 101 (OPTO)

SYNCHRONOUS GRADED ACTIVITY

NAME: _______________________________ DATE: _______________

I. Show your complete solution in solving the problems. (5 pts. Each)
1. A bottle of wine falls from an airplane as it comes in to land. If the bottle hits the ground
with a vertical speed of 95 m/s, what was the height of the plane when it fell off? (Assume
that friction can be ignored.)
2. How far can a boy push a 30 kg cart, using a force of 82 N, if he can only do 2920 J of work?
3. An 11,000 kg airplane lands, descending a vertical distance of 5 km while travelling 100 km
measured along the ground. What is the plane’s loss of potential energy?
4. When the speed of an object triples, by how much does its kinetic energy change?
5. How high would you have to lift a 1,100 kg car to give it a potential energy of 200,000 J?
6. How fast must a 900 kg car be moving to have a kinetic energy of 200,000 J?
7. An engine reaches its top speed from rest in 8.5 s. It is able to perform 220,000 J of wok in
that time. How much power does this engine have in that time?
8. If a runner exerts 450 J of work to make 125 W of power, then how long did it take the
runner to do the work?