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1. The hockey rubber ball leaves a
player’s stick with a velocity of 30 ft/s
and slides to a distance of 120 ft before
coming to rest. Compute the coefficient
of friction between the rubber ball and
the ice.
Ans. 0.117
2. A stone is dropped from the deck of
a bridge. The sound of the splash
reaches the deck 3 seconds later. How
high is the deck of the bridge above the
water level if sound travels 342 m/s in
still air?
Ans. 40.7 m
3. An airplane which is properly
maneuvers a turn will bank so that the
resultant of the weight force and the
inertial force is normal to the wings. In
this way the plane will tend to drift
neither upward nor downward. If the
plane’s velocity is 100 mph, making a
turn of 2000 ft, calculate the proper
angle of bank measured between a line
normal to te wings and the vertical.
Ans. 18.5 deg
4. A vehicle moving at 50 m/s is
brought to rest in 3 seconds. Calculate
the distance traveled before it comes to
stop.
Ans. 75 m
5. What is the angle of banking for a
highway curve of radius 90 m designed
to accommodate cars traveling at 160
kph? The coefficient of friction
between the tires and the road is 0.60.
Ans. 34.9 deg
17. A man on an elevator weighs 180
on a flat, horizontal floor surface and
strikes a stationary wooden ball
weighing 200 lbs. If the steel ball has a
velocity of 16.7 ft/s impact, what is its
velocity immediately after impact?
Assume a frictionless floor and the
collision is perfectly elastic.
Ans. 0
7. A golf ball leaves the golf club at an
angle of 60 degree above the horizontal
reference with a velocity of 25 m/s.
How high does it go?
Ans. 23.89 m
8. A ball is thrown vertically upward
from the ground and a student gazing
out of the window sees it moving
upward pass him at 5 m/s. The window
is 10 m above the ground. How high
does the ball go above the ground?
Ans. 11.30 m
9. A ball is dropped from the top of a
tower 100 high at the same instant a
second ball is thrown upward from the
ground. If the two balls meet each
other at a point 60 m above the ground,
determine the initial velocity of the
second ball.
Ans. 35.02 m/s
10. An automobile moving at a
constant velocity of 15 m/s passes a
gasoline station. Two seconds later,
another automobile leaves the gasoline
station and accelerates at a constant
rate of 2 m/s2. How soon will the
second automobile overtake the first?
Ans. 16.8 s
11. A girl throws a 0.1 kilogram ball at
per second in a straight line, how many
perpendicularly with a velocity of 5
meters per second and then bounces
straight back with a velocity of 4
meters per second. The change in the
momentum of the ball is:
Ans. 0.9 kilogram-meters per sec.
12. A child weighing 50 Newtons is on
a swing. He goes from a minimum
height of 0.2 meters to a maximum
height of 1.5 meters. His maximum
speed is closest to:
Ans. 5 m/s
13. What is the initial velocity of an
object if it is moving 10 meters per
second after 2 seconds with a constant
acceleration of 4 meters per second
squared?
Ans. 2 m/s
14. A baseball player hits the ball such
that as it leaves the bat, it has a speed
of 40 m/s and has an angle of 44
degrees. What is the time that the ball
reaches the highest point of its flight?
Ans. 2.83 s
15. The normal acceleration of a
particle on the rim of a pulley 10 ft in
diameter is constant at 1200 fps2.
Which of the following gives the speed
of the pulley in rpm?
Ans. 147.937
16. Water drops from a faucet at the
rate of 4 drops per second. What is the
distance between two successive drops
1 second after the first drop has fallen.
Ans. 7.04 ft.
lbf. Compute the force exerted by the
man on the floor of the elevator if it is
accelerating upward at 5 ft/s2
Ans. 207.95 lbf
18. A 25 g mass bullet was fired at the
wall. The bullet’s speed upon hitting
the wall is 350 m/s. What is the
average force (in Newton) if the bullet
penetrates 10 cm?
Ans. 15,312.5 N
19. Two buses start at the same time
towards each other from terminals A
and B, 8 km apart. The time needed for
the first bus to travel from A to B is 8
minutes, and of the second bus from B
to A is 10 minutes. How much is the
time needed by each bus to meet each
if they traveled at their respective
uniform speed?
Ans. 4.44 min
20. A highway curve has a super
elevation of 7 degrees. What is the
radius of the curve such that there will
be no lateral pressure between the tires
and the roadway at a speed of 40 mph?
Ans. 265.71 m
21. A ball falling vertically from rest
for 3 seconds travels very nearly
Ans. 44.1 meters
22. A 10 kilogram ball falls from a
height of 5 meters and rebounds from
the floor to a height of 3 meters. The
energy lost by the ball is
Ans. 196 Joules
23. If a car is travelling at 20 meters
seconds will it take the car to stop if it
decelerates at 5 meters per second
squared.
Ans. 4 s
24. A model airplane flies over the
ocean in level flight at an altitude of
19.6 meters. How long does it take a
bomb, dropped from under the wing, to
impact the water?
Ans. 2 s
25. A projectile is fired into the air at
an angle of 23 degrees. At what other
angle would this projectile have the
same range if air resistance is
neglected?
Ans. 67 degrees
26. A roller start from rest at the
highest point of the track 30 m above
the ground. What speed will it have at
ground level if the effect of friction is
neglected?
Ans. 24.3 m/s
27. A car moving at 70 kph has a mass
of 1700 kg. What force is necessary to
decelerate it at a rate of 40 cm/s2 ?
Ans. 680 N
28. A thief escapes and boarded on a
truck and traveled at a constant speed
of 55 kph. Two hours later after the
truck left, a policeman riding on a
motorbike pursued the fugitive at a
constant speed of 80 kph. How long
did it take the policeman to catch up
the criminal?
Ans. 4.4 hours
29. A 3500 kg car accelerates from
rest. The constant forward tractive
force of the car is 1000 N and the
constant drag force is 150 N. What
distance will the car travel in 3
seconds?

Ans. 1.1 m

30. From the top of a hill inclined at

an angle of 30 degree, a projectile is
fired with a velocity of 50 ft/s. If the
projectile is positioned perpendicular
to the surface of the hill, determine its
range down the hill.

Ans. 103.52 feet