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Mechanical, potential, and kinetic energy 10th year

Instructions: Read each problem, analyze it, calculate the answer, and write it down.

1. How much gravitational potential energy do you have when you lift a 1.53 kg object 10 m off the
ground?

2. How much kinetic energy does a 0.15 kg ball thrown at 24 m/s have?

3. A person is standing in an elevator at the height of 10m. The speed of the elevator is 1 m/s. Determine
the total mechanical energy associated with the person if the mass of the person is 56kg.

4. With a kinetic energy of 2,268,750 J the probability to die in a car crash is of 509%. If a car has
approximately 1500 kg. How high is the velocity of the car?

5. How much gravitational potential energy is in a 20 kg mass when 0.6 meters above the ground?

6. A person of 70 kg has a gravitational potential energy of 8 918 J. How high the body is?

7. A body of mass 30 kg is moving with the speed of 22 m/s on a frictionless horizontal road at sea level.
Find out the total mechanical energy associated with the body.

8. How heavy is a body that moves at 25km/hr and has a kinetic energy of 20937.5 J?

9. How many times greater is an objects potential energy when three times higher?

10. A person is walking on the roof at a height of 3.0 m. What will be the total mechanical energy associated
with the person if the mass of that person is 45kg and he is moving with the speed of 1.6 m/s?

11. How many times greater is the kinetic energy of a ball that is going five times faster?

12. A heavy object is dropped from a vertical distance of 12 m above the ground. What is the speed of the
object as it hits the ground?

13. How much kinetic energy does a 1.2 kg ball have the moment it hits the ground 3.5 meters below when
it starts from rest?

14. A heavy object is thrown vertically down from the top of a 1.00 X 102 m building at a velocity of 10.0
m/s. what is the speed as it reaches the ground?

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