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School of Applied Natural Sciences,

Department of Applied Physics
General Physics Worksheet I

1 A car starts from rest at constant acceleration of 2.0 m/s2. At the same instant a truck
travelling with a constant speed of 10 m/s overtakes and passes the car. (a) How far
beyond the starting point will the car overtake the truck? (b) After what time will this
happen? (c) At that instant what will be the speed of the car?
An object moves along the x axis according to the equation m.
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Determine (a) the average speed between t = 2 s and t = 3 s, (b) The instantaneous speed
at t= 2 s and at t = 3 s, (c) The average acceleration between t= 2 s and t = 3 s, and (d)
The instantaneous acceleration at t = 2 s and t = 3 s
A body moving with uniform acceleration has a velocity of in the positive
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direction when its coordinate is . If its x coordinate 2 s later is , what is
the magnitude of its acceleration?
A ball is dropped from rest from a height above the ground. Another ball is thrown
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vertically upward from the ground at the instant the first ball is released. Determine the
speed of the second ball if the two balls are to meet at a height above the ground.
A motorist drives along a straight road at a constant speed of 15 m/s. Just as she passes a
5 parked motorcycle police officer, the officer starts to accelerate at 2 m/s2 to overtake her.
Assuming the officer maintains this acceleration,

(a) Determine the time it takes the police officer to reach the motorist, the speed and
(c) The total displacement of the officer as he overtakes the motorist
A projectile is fired in such a way that its horizontal range is equal to three times its
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maximum height. What is the angle of projection?
Cannon with a muzzle speed of 1000 m/s is used to start an avalanche on a mountain
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slope. The target is 2000 m from the cannon horizontally and 800 m above the cannon. At
what angle, above the horizontal, should the cannon be fired?

8. Figure below shows the total acceleration and velocity of a particle

moving clockwise in a circle of radius 2.5 m at a given instant of
time. At this instant, find

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a. The radial acceleration,
b. the speed of the particle, and
c. Its tangential acceleration.

9. A ball is thrown with an initial speed vi at an angle with the horizontal. The horizontal
range of the ball is R, and the ball reaches a maximum height R/6. In terms of R and g,
find
(a) The time the ball is in motion,
(b) The ball’s speed at the peak of its path,
(c) The initial vertical component of its velocity,
(d) Its initial speed, and the angle .

10. A projectile is fired up an incline (incline angle, ) with an initial speed vi at an angle
with respect to the horizontal ), as shown in Figure below.

(a) Show that the projectile travels a distance d up the incline, where

(b) For what value of is d a maximum, and what is that maximum value of d ?
11. A boy can throw a ball a maximum horizontal distance of 40m on a level field. How far
can he throw the same ball vertically upward? Assume that his muscles give the ball the
same speed in each case.

12. A block of mass m1 sits on a block of mass m2,

which rests on a smooth table, see Fig. below.
If the coefficient of friction between the blocks
is μ, find the maximum force that can be
applied to m2 so that m1 may not slide.

13. In the figure below, a 0.5kg block is suspended at the midpoint of a 1.25-m long string.
The ends of the string are attached to the ceiling at points separated by 1m.
a) What angle does the string make with the ceiling?

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b) What is the tension in the string?
c) The 0.5kg block is removed and two
0.25kg blocks are attached to the string
such that the lengths of the three string
segments are equal (Figure b). What is the
tension in each segment of the string?
14. A box of mass rests on a frictionless horizontal shelf and is
attached by strings to boxes of masses and as shown in
Figure. Both pulleys are frictionless and massless. The
system is released from rest. After it is released, find
a) The acceleration of each of the boxes, and
b) The tension in each string.

15. The 3kg object in Figure is released from rest at a height of on a curved frictionless
ramp.
At the foot of the ramp is a spring of force constant 400N/m. The object slides down the
ramp and into the spring, compressing it a distance before coming momentarily to rest.
a) Find
b) Describe the motion of the object (if any) after
the block momentarily comes to rest?

16. The constant forces ̂ ̂ ̂ N and ̂ ̂ ̂ N act together on a

particle during a displacement from position ̂ cm to position ̂ ̂
cm. Determine the total work done on the particle.

17. A block slides 1.5m down a frictionless incline that makes an angle of 60° with the
horizontal.
a) Draw the free-body diagram of the block, and find the work done by each force
when the block slides (measured along the incline).
b) What is the total work done on the block?
c) What is the speed of the block after it has
slid if it starts from rest?
d) What is its speed after 1.5m, if it starts
with an initial speed of 2m/s?
18. A 50 kg block and a 100 kg block are connected
by a string as in Figure below. The pulley is
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frictionless and of negligible mass. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the 50 kg
block and the incline is 0.25. Determine the change in the kinetic energy of the 50
kg block as it moves from to , a distance of 20 m.
19. An object of mass m starts from rest and slides a distance d down a frictionless incline of
angle &. While sliding, it contacts an unstressed spring of force constant k and negligible
mass as shown in Figure below. The object slides an
additional distance x as it is brought momentarily to rest
by compression of the spring. Find the initial separation d
between object and spring.

20. A 6kg clay ball is thrown directly against a perpendicular brick wall at a velocity of
22m/s and shatters into three pieces, which all fly backward, as shown in the figure. The
wall exerts a force on the ball of 2640 N for 0.1s. One piece of mass 2kg travels backward
at a velocity
of 10m/s and an angle of 32° above the
horizontal. A second piece of mass 1kg travels
at a velocity of 8m/s and an angle of 28° below
the horizontal. What is the velocity of the third
piece?

21. Two balls of equal mass collide and stick together as shown in the figure. The initial velocity
of ball B is twice that of ball A.

a) Calculate the angle above the horizontal of the motion of mass A + B after the collision.
b) What is the ratio of the final velocity of the mass A + B to the initial velocity of ball A, ?
c) What is the ratio of the final energy of the system to the initial energy of the system, ?
Is the collision elastic or inelastic?
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22. A projectile of mass m1=m moving along the x direction with a speed √
m/s collides elastically with a stationary target of mass m2 =2m. After the collision, the
projectile
is deflected at an angle of 900, as shown in Fig.
below.
a. What is the speed and angle of the target
after collision?
b. What is the final speed of the projectile
and the fraction of kinetic energy
transferred to the target?
23. an identical
A ball movingstationary ball of
with a speed such thatstrikes
9 m/s after
collision, the direction of each ball makes an
angle 30◦ with the original line of motion (see
Fig. below). Find the speeds of the two balls
after the collision. Is the kinetic energy
conserved in the collision process?

24. A bullet of mass is fired with an initial speed of 5oom/s into a block of
mass
initially at rest at the edge of a frictionless table of height . The bullet
remains in the block, and after impact the block lands a distance from the bottom of the
the floor.
table. Determine the initial speed of the bullet and the distance d at which the block hits

25. A pendulum consists of a big sphere of mass m=30 kg hung from the end of a steel wire
that has a length L =15m, a cross-sectional area A = 9×10−6 m2, and Young’s modulus Y
=200×109 N/m2. Find the tensile stress on the wire and the increase in its length.

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26. A 30kg hammer strikes a steel spike 2.3cm in diameter while moving with speed 20m/s.
The hammer rebounds with speed 10m/s after 0.11s. What is the average strain in the
spike during the impact?
27. Blood flows at 30 cm/s in an aorta of radius 9mm.
a) Calculate the volume flow rate in liters per minute.
b) Although the cross-sectional area of a capillary is much smaller than that of the aorta,
there are many capillaries, so their total cross-sectional area is much larger. If all the
blood from the aorta flows into the capillaries and the speed of flow through the
capillaries is 1 mm/s, calculate the total cross-sectional area of the capillaries. Assume
laminar non-viscous steady-state flow.
28. An airplane has a mass of kg, and each wing has an area of 40m2. During level
flight, the pressure on the lower wing surface is Pa. Determine the pressure on
the upper wing surface.
29. A 4-kg mass is supported by a steel wire of diameter 0.6 mm and length 1 .2 m.
How much will the wire stretch under this load?

30 Water moves through a constricted pipe in steady, ideal flow. At the lower point shown
in Figure 1, the pressure is
and the pipe diameter is 6.0 cm. At another point
higher, the pressure is and
the pipe diameter is 3.0 cm. Find the speed of flow (a) in the
lower section and (b) in the upper section. (c) Find the volume
flow rate through the pipe. Figure 1
31. The spring of the pressure gauge shown in Figure 2 has a force constant of 1 250 N/m,
and the piston has a diameter of 1.20 cm. As the gauge is
lowered into water in a lake, what change in depth causes
the piston to move in by 0.750 cm?

Figure 2

32. A vertical spring stretches 3.9 cm when a 10-g object is hung from it. The object
is
replaced with a block of mass 25 g that oscillates up and down in simple harmonic
motion. Calculate the period of motion.

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