Name: ______________

3-2F: Work, Energy & Power Assignment

Total / 52 Marks

Knowledge Thinking Communication Application

/14 /19 /10 /9

Instructions:
➢ Write your answers in the space provided.
➢ Include all the steps of your calculations and draw any diagrams that support your
solutions.
➢ Include graphs either on graph paper or use Excel to graph and include the image.
➢ Round all answers to correct number of significant digits.

Knowledge & Understanding (14 marks)

1. A 5.0 kg sled is pushed by a net force of 15.0 N forward.

a. How much work is done on the sled if the sled moves 5.0m forward? 1 mark
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark

b. How much work is done on the sled if the sled moves 10.0m forward ? 1 mark

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark
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2. The world record for the fastest fastball in baseball is 46.7m/s. The baseball that was
used had a mass of 0.145kg.
a. What is the kinetic energy of the baseball? 2 marks
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark

b. How fast would a 1600 kg car need to travel in order to have the same kinetic
energy? 2 marks
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark
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3. A tow truck pulls a car from rest onto a level road. The tow truck exerts a horizontal force
of 1500N on the car. The frictional force on the car is 810N. Calculate the work done by
each of the following forces on the car as the car moves forward 12 m.

a. The force of the tow truck on the car. 1 mark

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark

b. The force of friction 1 mark

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark
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c. The normal force 1 marks

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark

d. The force of gravity 1 mark

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark
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4. Jeff is on the bottom floor of the mall and has a mass of 75kg. Jeff walks up the stairs
5.20 m high to meet up with his family in the food court.
a. How much potential energy did Jeff gain? 2 marks
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark

b. Using the food court as a reference point, calculate their gravitational potential
energy of Jeff from the food court to the bottom floor? 2 marks
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark
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Thinking & Inquiry (19 marks)

5. Jaya pulls a wagon by the handle along a flat sidewalk. She exerts a force of 80.0N at
an angle of 30.0𝑜 above the horizontal while she moves the wagon 12.0 m forward. The
force of friction on the wagon is 34.0N.
a. Draw a free-body diagram of the wagon. 1 mark

b. Calculate the mechanical work done by Jaya on the wagon. 2 marks

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark
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c. Calculate the total work done on the wagon. 2 marks

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark
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6. Matthew weighs 67.0 kg and he decides to climb an office tower using the stairs. The
ground floor is called the first floor. The floors of the towers are labeled as ground floor,
second floor, third floor and so on. If the floors are 3.80 m apart, how much
gravitational potential energy would Matthew have

a. Relative to the ground floor if he made it to the fifth floor? 1 mark

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark

b. Relative to the ground floor if he made it to the tenth floor? 1 mark

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark
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c. Relative to the ground floor if he made it to the first basement level? 1 mark
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark

d. If Matthew travel from the ground floor the tenth floor and lost 1.60 kg, what
would his gravitational potential energy be from the tenth floor to the first
basement level? 2 marks
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1.5 mark
• Final Answer 1 mark
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7. After a huge snow storm Rachel uses 4050 J of work to move a pile of snow 3.40 m.
Rachel uses shovel at an angle of 60.00 to the snow pile.

a. Draw the diagram representing the situation. 1 mark

b. What force must have been applied by Rachel to do this work? 2 marks
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1 mark
• Statement 1 mark
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8. Tony, the school caretaker is applying a 200.0 N force 45𝑜 to the horizontal to push a
lawn mower a horizontal distance of 20.0m. How much work does Tony do on the lawn
mower, assuming no friction? 2 marks

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1 mark
• Statement 1 mark
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9. Sara’s dog Rue having mass of 15.0kg chases a squirrel at 10.0km/h and slows to 2.0
km/h in 7.5s. Calculate the power required to effect Rue’s change of speed. 4 marks
Marking Scheme
• Equations 1 mark
• Showing work 2 marks
• Concluding statement 1 mark
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Application (9 marks)

10. At the cirque du soleil Jennifer has to do a stunt where she has to jump off the top of a
very high apartment building and land in a crash mat below. At a point during the fall,
when she is 50.0m above the crash mat, she is falling at a speed of 35.0 m/s. Her mass
is 68.0 kg.
a. What is her gravitational potential energy at this point? 2 marks
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1 mark
• Concluding statement 1 mark

b. What is her kinetic energy at this point? 2 marks

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1 mark
• Concluding statement 1 mark
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c. How much total energy does she have at this point? 1 mark
Marking Scheme
• Showing work 0.5 mark
• Final answer 0.5 mark

d. How high is the apartment building? 2 marks

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1.5 marks
• Final answer 0.5 mark
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e. What will her velocity be when she hits the crash mat? 2 marks

Marking Scheme
• Showing work 1.5 mark
• Final Answer 0.5 mark
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Communication (10 marks)

11. In your own words, explain whether mechanical work is done or not in each of the
following cases:
a. A heavy box sits on a rough horizontal counter in a factory. 2 marks

Marking Scheme
• Statement about work done 1 mark
• Explanation 1 mark

b. An employee pulls on the box with a horizontal force and nothing happens.
2 marks
Marking Scheme
• Statement about work done 1 mark
• Explanation 1 mark
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c. The same employee goes behind the box and pushes even harder, and the box
begins to move. After a few seconds, the box slides on to frictionless rollers and
the employee lets go, allowing the box to move with a constant velocity.2 marks

Marking Scheme
• Statement about work done 2x 0.5 mark
• Explanation 2x 0.5 mark
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12. Subway systems in some cities are designed so that the subway station is closer to the
surface than the level of the track between stations. Considering the effort needed to
speed up and slow down the subway trains, why might this be a good idea from the point
of view of energy transformations? 4 marks
Marking Scheme
• Energy transformations 2x1 mark
• Explanation 2x1 mark