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Energy Calculations and Problems

This document contains 12 problems related to calculating energy, velocity, mass, height, and acceleration using concepts of kinetic energy, potential energy, and conservation of energy. The problems involve objects like people climbing walls, balls rolling, boxes being lifted, cars moving, trees falling, ice falling from planes, skiers descending hills, rocks being dropped, tires rolling down hills, hot dog carts rolling down a hill during an earthquake, and astronauts jumping on the moon. The quantities calculated include mass, velocity, height, and gravitational acceleration.

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Energy Calculations and Problems

This document contains 12 problems related to calculating energy, velocity, mass, height, and acceleration using concepts of kinetic energy, potential energy, and conservation of energy. The problems involve objects like people climbing walls, balls rolling, boxes being lifted, cars moving, trees falling, ice falling from planes, skiers descending hills, rocks being dropped, tires rolling down hills, hot dog carts rolling down a hill during an earthquake, and astronauts jumping on the moon. The quantities calculated include mass, velocity, height, and gravitational acceleration.

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Energy Problems

1.- A man climbs on to a wall that is 3.6m high and gains 2268J of potential energy. What is the
mass of the man? (64.22 kg)

2.- How fast is a ball rolling if it contains 98 J of kinetic energy and has a mass of 4 kg? (7 m/s)

3.- A box has a mass of 5.8kg. The box is lifted from the garage floor and placed on a shelf. If the
box gains 145J of Potential Energy, how high is the shelf? (2.5 m)

4.- Find the mass of a car that is traveling at a velocity of 60 m/s North. The car has 5,040,000 J of
kinetic energy. (2800kg)

5.- During a flood a tree trunk of mass 100 kg falls down a waterfall. The waterfall is 5 m high. If air
resistance is ignored, calculate the magnitude of the velocity of the tree trunk at the bottom of the
waterfall. (9.9 m/s)

6.- A lump of ice falls from an aeroplane as it comes in to land. If the ice hits the ground with a
vertical speed of 85m/s, what was the height of the plane when the ice fell off? (Assume that
friction can be ignored.) (361.25m)

7.- A 2-kg ball has a potential energy of 6400 J at a point A above the ground. What will its velocity
be when it strikes the ground after being released from point A? (80 m/s)

8.- A skier glides down a frictionless hill of 100 meters, the ascends another hill, of height 90
meters, as shown in the figure below. What is the speed of the skier when it reaches the top of the
second hill? A=the final velocity of the skier is 14 m/s.

9.- A student lifts his 2.0 kg pet rock 2.8 m straight up. He then lets it drop to the ground. Use the
Law of Conservation of Energy to calculate how fast the rock will be moving (a) half way down and
(b) just before it hits the ground. Answers a) 5.2 m/s b) 7.4 m/s

10.- Kathy is changing the tire of her car on a steep hill 20 m high. She trips and drops the 10 kg
spare tire, which rolls down the hill with an initial speed of 2 m/s. What is the speed of the tire at
the top of the next hill, which is 5 m high? (17.4 m/s)
11.- Frank, a San Francisco hot dog vender, has fallen asleep on the job. When an earthquake
strikes, his 300 kg hot dog cart rolls down Nob Hill and reaches point A at a speed of 8 m/s. How
fast is the hot dog cart going at point B when Frank finally wakes up and starts to run after it?
(21.5m/s)

12.- .- While on the moon, the Apollo astronauts enjoyed the effects of a gravity much smaller
than that on the earth. If Neil Armstrong jumped up in the moon with an initial speed of 1.51 m/s
to a height of 0.7 m, what amount of gravitational acceleration did he experience? (1.63 m/s2)

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