Practice Questions for Exam 2
1. You are throwing a baseball up. Suppose your hand moves upward by 0.50 m while you
are throwing the ball. The ball leaves your hand with an upward velocity of 20.0 m/s.
a) Draw the energy pi-chart for the ball.
b) Find the magnitude of the force (assumed constant) that your hand exerts on the ball.
[Hint: use conservation of energy, and the work done by your hand on the ball for o.50
m is work done by other force or Wint.]
c) Find the speed of the ball at a point 15.0 m above the point where it leaves your hand.
Ignore air resistance.
2. A sled with a rider having a combined mass of 130 kg travels over a perfectly smooth icy
hill. How far does the sled land from the foot of the cliff?
[First, use conservation of energy
from the bottom of the hill and the
top of the hill to find the velocity on
top of the hill. Then use 2-dimension
kinematics for the projectile to find
the distance where it lands]
3. A spring of negligible mass has force constant 𝑘 = 1500 𝑁/𝑚. You place the spring
vertically with one end on the floor. You then drop a 1.20 kg book onto it from a height of
0.800 m above the top of the spring. Find the maximum distance the spring will be
compressed.
4. In a loading station of public storage, a small 0.800 kg package is released from rest at a
point on a track, as shown. It slides down the track and reaches a point with a speed of
5.40 m/s. From point B, it slides on a level surface at a distance of 3.00 m to point C,
where it comes to rest. (a) What is the coefficient of kinetic friction on the horizontal
surface? (b) How much
work is done on the
package by friction as it
slides down the circular
arc from A to B?
5. A 15.0 kg stone slides down a snow-
covered hill, leaving point A at a speed of
10.0 m/s. There is no friction on the hill
between points A and B, but there is
friction on the level ground at the bottom of
the hill. After entering the rough horizontal
region, the stone travels 100 m and then
runs into a very long, light spring with force
constant 𝑘 = 2.00 𝑁/𝑚 The coefficients of
kinetic friction between the stone and the horizontal ground is 0.20. (a) What is the
speed of the stone when it reaches point B? (b) How far will the stone compress the
spring?
6. A car engine of 100 kg mass hangs from a chain that is
linked at O ring to two other chains, one fastened to the
ceiling and the other to the wall.
a) Dra a force diagram for the engine.
b) Find the tension force in each of the three chains.
7. A 12 kg box of mail is pushed down with a force of 15 N along a ramp inclined at an
angle of 15o. The coefficient of friction between the ramp and the box is 0.3.
A) Draw the force diagram for the box.
B) What is the acceleration of the box?
C) Find the work done by friction and gravity
on the box if the box slides down 2 m along
the ramp starting from rest.
Equations
1. 𝑣! = 𝑣" + 𝑎𝑡
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2. 𝑑 = 𝑣" 𝑡 + $ 𝑎𝑡 $
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3. Conservation of energy, 𝐸# + 𝐸#&' + 𝐸#( + 𝑊 )*+&, = 𝐸$ + 𝐸$&' + 𝐸$(
4. Work done by a constant force, 𝑊 = 𝐹𝑑𝑐𝑜𝑠𝜃
5. 𝑓 ( = 𝜇( 𝐹 -