Tutorial
Motion in 2D (Chapter 4)
1. A long-jumper leaves the ground at an angle θi = 20° above the horizontal at a
speed of vi = 11.0 m/s.
(a) How far does he jump in the horizontal direction? (Assume his motion is
equivalent to that of a particle.)
(b) What is the maximum height reached?
2. A stone is thrown. xi = yi = 0, yf = -45.0 m, vi = 20 m/s, θi = 30º.
Fig 1.
(a) Time to hit the ground?
(b) Speed just before it hits?
(c) Distance from the base of the building where it lands? (cos30°=0.87, sin30°=0.5)
3. A movie stunt driver on a motorcycle speeds horizontally off a 50.0-m-high cliff.
How fast must the motorcycle leave the cliff top to land on level ground below, 90.0
m from the base of the cliff where the cameras are?
Fig 2.
Laws of Motion (Chapter 5)
1. The Thrust SSC car raised the world speed record in 1997. The mass of the car
was 1.0 × 104 kg. A 12 s run by the car may be considered in two stages of constant
acceleration. Stage one was from 0 to 4.0 s, and stage two was from 4.0 s to 12 s.
(a) In stage one, the car accelerates from rest to 44 m s−1 in 4.0 s. Calculate the
acceleration produced and the force required to accelerate the car.
(b) In stage two, the car continued to accelerate so that it reached 280 m s–1 in a
further 8.0 s. Calculate the acceleration of the car during stage two.
(c) Calculate the distance travelled by car from rest to reach a speed of 280 m s–1.
2. The vehicle accelerates horizontally from rest to 27.8 m s–1 in a time of 4.6 s.
The mass of the vehicle is 360 kg, and the rider has a mass of 82 kg.
Fig 3.
(a) Calculate the average acceleration during the 4.6 s time interval. Give your
answer to an appropriate number of significant figures.
(b) Calculate the average horizontal resultant force on the vehicle while it is
accelerating.
Circular Motion (chapter 6)
1. What is the centripetal acceleration felt by the passengers of a car moving at 12
m/s along a curve with radius 2.0 m?
a. 3 m/s2
b. 6 m/s2
c. 36 m/s2
d. 72 m/s2
2. Calculate the centripetal acceleration of an object following a path with a
radius of curvature of 0.2 m and at an angular velocity of 5 rad/s.
a. 1 m/s
b. 5 m/s
c. 1 m/s2
d. 5 m/s2
3. An object is in uniform circular motion with a radius of 2 m. Calculate the
angular displacement if the object moves 3 m around its circular path.
4. An object spins in uniform circular motion with a radius of 0.5 m. Calculate
the angular displacement in degrees if the object moves 0.25 m around its circular
path
5. A fairground ride spins children on a swing in circular motion at a radius of 4 m.
If the children complete one full circle in 3 s, What is their angular velocity?
6. A car of mass 1200 kg is travelling around a circular racing track of
radius 200 m. The car is moving at a constant speed of 40 ms−1 . What is the
centripetal force needed to keep the car in circular motion?
7. A swing ball game in circular motion at a radius of 0.8 m. If the ball completes
one full circle in 1.2 s, What is the ball’s angular acceleration?
8. A go-cart of mass 300 kg is travelling around a circular racing track of
radius 150 m. The go-cart is moving at a constant speed of 30 ms−1 . What is the
centripetal force needed to keep the car in circular motion?
Work, Energy, and Power (Chapter 7&8)
1. In the diagram below, a rope with tension T = 150 N pulls a 15.0 kg block 3.0 m
up an incline (θ = 25.0°). The coefficient of kinetic friction is μk = 0.20. Find the
work done by each force acting on the block.
Fig 4.
2. A winch lifts a 150 kg crate 3.0 m upwards with an acceleration of 0.50 m/s 2.
How much work is done by the winch? How much work is done by gravity?
Fig 5.
3. What work does a baseball bat do on a baseball of mass 0.325 kg, which has an
initial speed forward of 36 m/s and a final speed of 27 m/s backwards? Assume
motion is linear and horizontal. The work done by the bat is a non-conservative force
4. How much work must be done to stop a 2000 kg car travelling at 60 km/h in 15.0
m? What was the average breaking force?
5. A 5.0 MW generating station is situated at a 22 m high dam. The energy used to
generate electricity comes from the loss in potential energy of the water as it falls
over the height of the dam. What is the minimum amount of water going through the
dam every day?
6. What power is required to pull a 5.0kg block at a steady speed of 1.25 m/s? The
coefficient of friction is 0.30.
7. A 7000 W engine is propelling a speedboat at 30 km/h. What force is the engine
exerting on the speedboat? What force and how much power is water resistance
exerted on the speedboat?
Center of Mass (Chapter 9)
1. Two-point masses, 3 kg and 5 kg, are at 4 m and 8 m from the origin on the X-
axis. Locate the position of the center of mass of the two-point masses (i) from the
origin and (ii) from the 3 kg mass.
2. A man of mass 50 kg is standing at one end of a boat of mass 300 kg floating on
still water. He walks towards the other end of the boat with a constant velocity of 2
ms-1 with respect to a stationary observer on land. What will be the velocity of the
boat, (a) with respect to the stationary observer on land? (b) with respect to the man
walking in the boat?
Fig 6.