Name: ____________________________________________ Impulse and Momentum

Practice Problems (Dynamics Part 2) 14. An 8-g bullet is fired horizontally into a 9-kg cube of
wood, which is at rest, and sticks in it. The cube is free to
Newton’s Laws of Motion move and has a speed of 40 cm/s after impact. Find the initial
1. Find the weight on Earth of a body whose mass is 3 kg. velocity of the bullet.
A. 0.45 km/s B. 0.55 km/s
2. A 20-kg object that can move freely is subjected to a C. 0.65 km/s D. 0.75 km/s
resultant force of 45 N in the –x-direction. Find the 15. A 16-g mass is moving in the +x-direction at 30 cm/s while
acceleration of the object. a 4 g-mass is moving in the –x-direction at 50 cm/s. They
collide head on and stick together. Find their velocity after
3. A 5-kg object is to be given an upward acceleration of 0.30
the collision.
m/s^2 by a rope pulling straight upward on it. What must be
A. 0.56 m/s B. 0.45 m/s
the tension in the rope?
C. 0.14 m/s D. 0.25 m/s
4. The only force acting on a 5 kg object has components Fx = 16. A 2-kg brick is moving at a speed of 6 m/s. How large a
20 N and Fy = 30 N. Find the acceleration of the object. retarding force is needed to stop the brick in a time of 7x10^-
4 s?
5. A constant force acts on a 5-kg object and reduces its A. 1.7x10^4 N B. 2.5x10^4 N
velocity from 7 m/s to 3 m/s in a time of 3 s. Find the force. C. 0.5x10^4 N D. 1.2x10^4 N
17. A 15-g bullet moving at 300 m/s passes through a 2 cm
6. An 8000-kg engine pulls a 40000-kg train along a level track
thick sheet of foam plastic and emerges with a speed of 90
and gives it an acceleration a1 = 1.2 m/s^2. What acceleration
m/s. What average force impeded its motion through the
would the engine give to a 16000-kg train?
plastic?
A. 2.1x10^4 N B. 3.1x10^4 N
Friction
C. 4.1x10^4 N D. 2.3x10^4 N
7. A horizontal force of 140 N is needed to pull a 60 kg box
18. In a billiards game, one player hits the cue ball towards
across the horizontal floor at a constant speed. What is the
another ball. The cue ball has a mass of 0.1kg and hits the
coefficient of friction between the floor and the box?
other ball with a velocity of 2ms. If the collision is completely
elastic and the cue ball travels with a velocity of 0.8ms after
8. A 400-g block with an initial speed of 80 cm/s slides along a
the collision, what is the mass and velocity of the other ball?
horizontal tabletop against a friction force of 0.70 N. (a) How
A. 2.2 m/s, 0.13 kg B. 4 m/s, 0.028 kg
far will it slide before stopping? (b) What is the coefficient of
C. 3.1 m/s, 0.094 kg D. 2.8 m/s, 0.043 kg
friction between the block and the tabletop?

9. A 200-N wagon is to be pulled up a 30 degree incline at Work Energy and Power

constant speed. How large a force parallel to the incline is 19. An object is being pulled along the ground by a 75-N force
needed if friction effects are negligible? directed 28 degrees above the horizontal. How much work
does the force do in pulling the object 8 m?
Banking of Highway Curves A. 0.25 kJ B. 0.53 kJ
10. A car is moving at a speed of 25 m/s around a level curve C. 0.75 kJ D. 1.2 kJ
of radius 100 m. What is the minimum value of the coefficient 20. A 300-g object slides 80 cm along a horizontal tabletop.
of static friction between the tires and the road required to How much work is done in overcoming friction between the
prevent the car from skidding? object and the table if the coefficient of kinetic friction is
A. 0.547 B. 0.346 C. 0.478 D. 0.637 0.20?
11. Determine the super elevation for a highway curve 183 m A. -0.47 J B. -0.55 j
in radius so that there will be no “side thrust” for a speed of C. 0.75 J D. 1.5 J
72 kph. 21. How much work is done against gravity in lifting a 3 kg
A. 10.23 deg B. 11.43 deg C. 12.56 deg D. 13.78 deg object through a vertical distance of 40 cm?
A. 5 J B. 7.5 J
12. An automobile goes around a slippery curve of radius 52 C. 18 J D. 12 J
m. If the road is banked at an angle of 18 degrees with the 22. A ladder 3 m long and weighing 200 N has its center of
horizontal, at what maximum speed in kph may the gravity 120 cm from the bottom. At its top end is a 50-N
automobile travel to avoid tendency to skid? weight. Compute the work required to raise the ladder from a
A. 46.346 B. 45.892 C. 44.12 D. 43.12 horizontal position on the ground to a vertical position.
A. 0.25 kJ B. 0.78 kJ
13. On a normal day, the speed limit of a highway curve is 42 C. 0.39 kJ D. 1.75 kJ
mph. If the curve has a radius of 600 ft, at what speed will
skidding impend if the coefficient of friction between tires 23. Compute the work done against gravity by a pump that
and roadway is 0.25? discharges 600 liters of fuel oil into a tank 20 m above the
A. 65 mph B. 71 mph C. 62 mph D. 68 mph pump’s intake. One cubic centimeter of fuel oil has a mass of
0.82 g.
A. 50 kJ B. 96 kJ
C. 78 kJ D. 102 kJ