Tutorial 5
1) You swing a bat and hit a heavy box with a force of 1500 N. The force the box exerts on the
bat is
A) exactly 1500 N only if the box does not move.
B) exactly 1500 N whether or not the box moves.
C) greater than 1500 N if the box moves.
D) less than 1500 N if the box moves.
E) greater than 1500 N if the bat bounces back.
2) A stalled car is being pushed up a hill at constant velocity by three people. The net force on
the car is
A) zero.
B) up the hill and equal to the weight of the car.
C) down the hill and equal to the weight of the car.
D) up the hill and greater than the weight of the car.
E) down the hill and greater than the weight of the car.
3) In order to get an object moving, you must push harder on it than it pushes back on you.
A) True
B) False
4)A box of mass m is pulled with a constant acceleration a along a horizontal frictionless floor
by a wire that makes an angle of 15° above the horizontal. If T is the tension in this wire, then
A) T = ma.
B) T > ma.
C) T < ma.
5)Consider what happens when you jump up in the air. Which of the following is the most
accurate statement?
A) It is the upward force exerted by the ground that pushes you up, but this force cannot exceed
your weight.
B) You are able to spring up because the earth exerts a force upward on you that is greater than
the downward force you exert on the earth.
C) Since the ground is stationary, it cannot exert the upward force necessary to propel you into
the air. Instead, it is the internal forces of your muscles acting on your body itself that propels
your body into the air.
D) When you push down on the earth with a force greater than your weight, the earth will push
back with the same magnitude force and thus propel you into the air.
E) When you jump up the earth exerts a force F1 on you and you exert a force F2 on the earth.
You go up because .
6)An object is moving forward with a constant velocity. Which statement about this object
MUST be true?
A) The net force on the object is zero.
B) The net force on the object is in the forward direction.
C) No forces are acting on the object.
D) The acceleration of the object is in the forward direction.
8) A block lies on a horizontal frictionless surface. A horizontal force of 100 N is applied to the
block giving rise to an acceleration of .
(a) Determine the mass of the block.
(b) Calculate the distance the block will travel if the force is applied for 10 s.
(c) Calculate the speed of the block after the force has been applied for 10 s.
The figure shows an acceleration-versus-force graph for three objects pulled by rubber bands.
The mass of object 2 is . What are the masses of objects 1 and 3?
A) 14 kg and 90 kg
B) 72 kg and 18 kg
C) 90 kg and 18 kg
D) 14 kg and 72 kg
9)The International Space Station has a mass of 1.8 × 105 kg. A astronaut inside the
station pushes off one wall of the station so she accelerates at . What is the magnitude
of the acceleration of the space station as the astronaut is pushing off the wall? Give your answer
relative to an observer who is space walking and therefore does not accelerate with the space
station due to the push.
A) 5.8 × 10-4 m/s2
B) 1.50 m/s2
C) 4.7 × 10-4 m/s2
D) zero
E) 3.9 × 10-3 m/s2
10) A box of mass 50 kg is at rest on a horizontal frictionless surface. A constant horizontal force
F then acts on the box and accelerates it to the right. It is observed that it takes the box 6.9
seconds to travel 28 meters. What is the magnitude of the force?
11) A 1000-kg car is driving toward the north along a straight horizontal road at a speed of
. The driver applies the brakes and the car comes to a rest uniformly in a distance of
. What are the magnitude and direction of the net force applied to the car to bring it to rest?
A) 1.00 N north
B) 10.0 × N south
C) 1.00 × N south
D) 1.00 N south
E) 100 N south
12) A construction worker pulls a box of tools on a smooth horizontal floor with a force of 100 N
in a direction of 37.0° above the horizontal. The mass of the box and the tools is 40.0 kg.
(a) Draw a free-body diagram for the box.
(b) Calculate the acceleration of the box.
(c) How hard does the floor push up on the box?
13) The graph in the figure shows the x component of the acceleration of a 2.4-kg object as a
function of time (in ms).
(a) At what time(s) does the x component of the net force on the object reach its maximum
magnitude, and what is that maximum magnitude?
(b) What is the x component of the net force on the object at time and at ?
Tutorial 6
1) Two objects having masses m1 and m2 are connected to each other as shown in the figure and
are released from rest. There is no friction on the table surface or in the pulley. The masses of the
pulley and the string connecting the objects are completely negligible. What must be true about
the tension T in the string just after the objects are released?
A) T = m2g
B) T > m2g
C) T < m2g
D) T = m1g
E) T > m1g
2) Two bodies P and Q on a smooth horizontal surface are connected by a light cord. The mass
of P is greater than that of Q. A horizontal force (of magnitude F) is applied to Q as shown in
the figure, accelerating the bodies to the right. The magnitude of the force exerted by the
connecting cord on body P will be
A) zero.
B) less than F but not zero.
C) equal to F.
D) greater than F.
3) A box slides down a frictionless plane inclined at an angle θ above the horizontal. The
gravitational force on the box is directed
A) parallel to the plane in the same direction as the movement of the box.
B) parallel to the plane in the opposite direction as the movement of the box.
C) perpendicular to the plane.
D) vertically.
E) at an angle θ below the inclined plane.
4)A brick is resting on a rough incline as shown in the figure. The friction force acting on the
brick, along the incline, is
A) zero.
B) equal to the weight of the brick.
C) greater than the weight of the brick.
D) less than the weight of the brick.
5) A 60.0-kg person rides in an elevator while standing on a scale. The scale reads . The
acceleration of the elevator is closest to
A) 3.13 m/s2 downward.
B) 6.67 m/s2 downward.
C) zero.
D) 9.80 m/s2 downward.
E) 6.67 m/s2 upward.
6) Two objects are connected by a very light flexible string as shown in the figure, where
and . You can ignore friction and the mass of the pulley.
(a) Draw free-body diagrams for each object.
(b) Calculate the magnitude of the acceleration of each object.
(c) Calculate the tension in the string
7) The figure shows a 100-kg block being released from rest from a height of 1.0 m. It then takes
it 0.90 s to reach the floor. What is the mass m of the other block? The pulley has no appreciable
mass or friction.
A) 60 kg
B) 54 kg
C) 48 kg
D) 42 kg
8) The figure shows two 1.0 kg-blocks connected by a rope. A second rope hangs beneath the
lower block. Both ropes have a mass of 250 g. The entire assembly is accelerated upward at 2.3
m/s2 by force . What is the tension at the top end of rope 1?
A) 18 N
B) 15 N
C) 2.9 N
D) 3.5 N
9) A 20.0-N box rests on a 50.0-N box on a perfectly smooth horizontal floor. When a horizontal
pull to the right is exerted on the lower box (see figure), both boxes move together. Find
the magnitude and direction of the net external force on the upper box.
10) A system comprising blocks, a light frictionless pulley, a frictionless incline, and connecting
ropes is shown in the figure. The 9.0-kg block accelerates downward when the system is released
from rest. The tension in the rope connecting the block and the block is closest to
A) 30 N.
B) 33 N.
C) 36 N.
D) 39 N.
E) 42 N.
11) Two boxes are connected by a weightless cord running over a very light frictionless pulley as
shown in the figure. Box A, of mass 8.0 kg, is initially at rest on the top of the table. The
coefficient of kinetic friction between box A and the table is 0.10. Box B has a mass of 15.0 kg,
and the system begins to move just after it is released.
(a) Draw the free-body diagrams for each of the boxes, identifying all of the forces acting on
each one.
(b) Calculate the acceleration of each box.
(c) What is the tension in the cord?
12) A rope pulls on the lower block in the figure with a tension force of 20 N. The coefficient of
kinetic friction between the lower block and the surface is 0.16. The coefficient of kinetic
friction between the lower block and the upper block is also 0.16. The pulley has no appreciable
mass or friction. What is the acceleration of the 2.0 kg block?
A) 4.1 m/s2
B) 5.1 m/s2
C) 8.4 m/s2
D) 9.2 m/s2