ASSIGNMENT:

CHOOSE 3 PROBLEMS FROM EACH CHAPTER AND ANSWER.

6.1 You push your physics book 1.50 m along a horizontal tabletop with a horizontal force of
2.40 N. The opposing force of friction is 0.600 N. a) How much work does your 2.40-N force do
on the book? b) What is the work done on the book by the friction force? C) What is the total
work done on the book?
6.14 You throw a 20-N rock vertically into the air from ground level. You observe that when it is
15.0 m above the ground, it is travelling at 25.0 m/s upward. Use the work-energy theorem to
find a) its speed just as it left the ground; b) its maximum height.
6.24 A 4.80-kg watermelon is dropped )zero initial speed) from the roof of a 25.0-m-tall
building. a) Calculate the work done by gravity on the watermelon during its displacement from
the roof to the ground. b) What is the kinetic energy of the watermelon just before it strikes the
ground? You can ignore air resistance.
6.29 A force of 160 N stretches a spring 0.050 m beyond its unstretched length. a) What
magnitude of force is required to stretched the spring 0.015 m beyond its unstretched length? To
compress the spring 0.020 m? b) How much work must be done to stretch the spring 0.015 m
beyond its unstretched length? How muck work to compress the spring 0.020 m from its
unstretched length?
6.37 A force F is applied to a 2.0-kg radio-controlled model car parallel to the x-axis as it moves
along a straight track. The component of the force varies with the x-coordinate of the car as
shown in Fig. 6.24. Calculate the work done by the force F when the car moves from a) x = 0 to
x = 3.0 m; b) x = 3.0 m to x = 4.0 m; c) x = 4.0 m to x = 7.0 m; d) x = 0 to x = 7.0 m; e) x = 7.0 m
to x = 2.0 m.

6.43 How many joules of energy does a 100-watt light bulb use per hour? How fast would a 70kg person have to run to have that amount of energy?

6.75 You are asked to design spring bumpers for the walls of a parking garage. A freely rolling
1200-kg car moving at 0.65 m/s is to compress the spring no more than 0.070 m before stopping.
What should be the force constant of the spring? Assume that the spring has negligible mass.
6.77 A 2.50-kg textbook is forced against a horizontal spring of negligible mass and force
constant 250 N/m, compressing the spring a distance of 0.250 m. When released, the textbook
slides on a horizontal table top with coefficient of kinetic friction k = 0.30. Use the workenergy theorem to find how far the textbook moves from its initial position before coming to
rest.
6.81 A 5.00-kg block is moving at v o = 6.00 m/s along a frictionless, horizontal surface toward a
spring with force constant k = 500 N/m that is attached to a wall (Fig. 6.27). The spring has a
negligible mass. a) Find the maximum distance the spring will be compressed. B) If the spring is
to compress by no more than 0.150 m, what should be the maximum value of v o .

6.82 Consider the system shown in Fig. 6.28. The rope and pulley have negligible mass, and the
pulley is frictionless. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the 8.00-kg block and the
tabletop is k = 0.250. The blocks are released from rest. Use energy methods to calculate the
speed of the 6.00-kg block after it has descended 1.50 m.

7.15 A force of 800 N stretches a certain spring a distance of 0.200 m a) What is the potential
energy of the spring when it is stretched 0.200 m? b) What is its potential energy when it is
compressed 5.00 cm?
7.17 A spring of negligible mass has a force constant k=1600N/m. a) How far must the spring be
compressed for 3.20 J of potential energy to be stored in it? b) You place the spring vertically
with one end of the floor. You then drop a 1.20 kg book onto it from a height of 0.80 m above
the top of the spring. Find the maximum distance the spring will be compressed.

7.42 A 2.00-kg block is pushed against a spring with negligible mass an force constant k = 400
N/m, compressing it 0.220 m. When the block is released, it moves along a frictionless,
horizontal surface and then up a frictionless incline with slope 37.0 (Fig. 7.30). a) What is the
speed of the blocks as it slides along the horizontal surface after having left the spring? b) How
far does the block travel up the incline before starting to slide back down?

7.43 A block with mass 0.50 kg is forced against a horizontal spring of negligible mass,
compressing the spring a distance of 0.20 m (Fig. 7.31). When released, the block moves on a
horizontal table top for 1.00 m before coming to rest. The spring constant k is 100 N/m. What is
the coefficient of kinetic friction, k, between the block and the table?

7.46 Riding a Loop-the-loop. A car in an amusement park ride rolls without friction around the
track shown in Fig. 7.32. It starts from rest at point A at a height h above the bottom of the loop.
Treat the car as a particle. a) What is the minimum value of h (in terms of R) such that the car
moves around the loop without falling off at the top (point B)? b) If h = 3.50R and R = 20.0 m,
compute the speed, radial acceleration, and tangential acceleration of the passengers when the
car is at point C, which is at the end of a horizontal diameter. Show these acceleration
components in a diagram, approximately to scale.

7.55 A system of two paint buckets connected by a lightweight rope is released from rest with the
12.0 kg bucket 2.00m above the floor (Fig. 7.36) Use the principle of conservation of energy to
find the speed with which this bucket strikes the floor. You can ignore friction and the inertia of
the pulley.

7.66 A truck with mass m has a brake failure while going down an icy mountain road of constant
downward slope angle (Fig. 7.39). Initially the truck is moving downhill at speed v o. After
careening downhill a distance L with negligible friction, the truck driver steers the runaway
vehicle onto a runaway truck ramp of constant upward slope angle . The truck ramp has a soft
sand surface for which the coefficient of rolling friction is r. What is the distance that the truck
moves up the ramp before coming to a halt? Use energy methods.

8.1 a) What is the magnitude of the momentum of a 10,000-kg truck whose speed is 12.0 m/s? b)
What speed would a 2,000-kg sport utility vehicle have to attain in order to have i) the same
momentum? ii) the same kinetic energy?
8.16 On a frictionless, horizontal air table, puck A (with mass 0.250 kg) is moving toward puck
B (with mass 0.350 kg), that is initially at rest. After the collision, puck A has a velocity of 0.120
m/s to the left, and puck B has velocity 0.650 m/s to the right. a) What was the speed of puck A
before the collision? b) Calculate the change in total kinetic energy of the system that occurs
during collision.
8.27 A hockey puck B rests on a smooth ice surface and is struck by a second puck A, which was
originally traveling at 40.0 m/s and which is deflected
from its original direction (Fig.

8.33). Puck B acquires a velocity at a

angle to the original direction of A. the pucks have
the same mass. a) Compute the speed of each puck after the collision. b) What fraction of the
original kinetic energy of puck A dissipates during the collision?
8.34 At the intersection of Texas Avenue and University Drive, a blue, subcompact car with mass
950 kg traveling east on University collides with a maroon pickup truck with mass 1900 kg that
is traveling north on Texas and ran a red light ( Fig. 8.34). The two vehicles stick together as a
result of the collision and, after the collision, the wreckage is sliding at 16.0 m/s in the direction
east of north. Calculate the speed of each vehicle before the collision. The collision occurs
during a heavy rainstorm; you can ignore friction forces between the vehicles and the wet road.

8.35 A 5.00 g bullet is fired horizontally into a 1.20 kg wooden block resting on a horizontal
surface. The coefficient of kinetic friction between block and surface is 0.20. The bullet remains
embedded in the block, which is observed to slide 0.230 m along the surface before stopping.
What was the initial speed of the bullet?
8.36 A Ballistic Pendulum. A 12.0 g rifle is fired with a speed of 380 m/s into a ballistic
pendulum with mass 6.00 kg, suspended from a cord 70.0 cm long (see Example 8.8 in Section
8.3). Compute a) the vertical height through which the pendulum rises; b) the initial kinetic
energy of the bullet; c) the kinetic energy of the bullet and pendulum immediately after the bullet
becomes embedded in the pendulum.
8.37 You and your friends are doing physics experiments on a frozen pond that serves as a
frictionless, horizontal surface. Sam, with a mass 80.0 kg, is given a push and slides eastward.
Abigail, with mass 50.0 kg, is sent sliding northward. They collide and. After the collision, Sam
is moving at
north of east with a speed of 6.00 m/s and Abigail is moving at
south of
east with a speed of 9.00 m/s. a) What was the speed of each person before the collision? b) by
how much did the total kinetic energy of the two people decrease during the collision?
8.39 A 0.150 kg glider is moving to the right on a frictionless, horizontal air track with a speed of
0.80 m/s. It has a head-on collision with a 0.300 kg glider that is moving to the left with a speed
of 2.20 m/s. Find the final velocity (magnitude and direction) of each glider if the collision is
elastic.

8.40 A 10.0 g marble slides to the left with a velocity of magnitude 0.4010 m/s on the
frictionless, horizontal surface of an icy, New York sidewalk and has a head-on elastic collision
with a larger 30.0 g marble sliding to the right with a velocity of magnitude 0.200 m/s (Fig.
8.35). a) Find the velocity of each marble (magnitude and direction) after the collision. (Since the
collision is head-on, all the motion is along a line.) b) Calculate the change in momentum (that is,
the momentum after the collision minus the momentum before the collision) for each marble.
Compare the values you get for each marble. c) Calculate the change in kinetic energy (that is,
the kinetic energy after the collision minus the kinetic energy before the collision) for each
marble. Compare the values you get for each marble.

8.46 A 1200 kg station wagon is moving along a straight highway at 12.0 m/s. Another car, with
mass 1800 kg and speed 20.0 m/s, has its center of mass 40.0 m ahead of the center of mass of
the station wagon (Fig. 8.36). a) Find the position of the center of mass of the system consisting
of the two automobiles. b) Find the magnitude of the total momentum of the system from the
above data. c) Find the speed of the center of mass of the system. d) Find the total momentum of
the system, using the speed of the center of mass. Compare your result with that of part (b).

9.2 An airplane propeller is rotating at 1900 rev/min. s0 Compute the propellers angular velocity
in rad/s. b) How long in seconds does it take for the propeller to turn through 35o?
9.10 A)If it took 0.480 s for the drive to make its second complete revolution, how long did it
take to make the first complete revolution? B) What is its angular acceleration, in rad/s^2?
9.11 An electric fan is turned off, and its angular velocity decreases uniformly from 500rev/min
to 200 rev/min in 4.00s. a.)Find the angular acceleration in rev/s 2 and the number of revolutions
made by the motor in the 4.00s interval. B.) How many more seconds are required for the fan to
come to rest if the angular acceleration remains constant at the value calculated in part (a)?
9.21 The main rotor of a helicopter is turning in a horizontal plane at 90.0 rev/min. the distance
from the center of the rotor shaft to each blade tip is 5.00 m. calculate the speed through the air

of the blade tip if a) the helicopter is sitting on the ground; b) the helicopter is rising vertically at
4.00 m/s.

9.52 Find the moment of inertia of a hoop (a thin-walled, hollow ring) with mass M and radius R
about an axis perpendicular to the hoops plane at an edge.
9.89 Two metal disks, one with radius R1 = 2.50 cm and mass M1 = 0.80 kg and the other with
radius R2 = 5.00 cm and mass M2 = 1.60 kg, are welded together and mounted on a frictionless
axis through their common center (Fig. 9.32). a) What is the total moment of inertia of the two
disks? b) A light string is wrapped around the edge of the smaller disk, and a 1.50-kg block,
suspended from the free end of the string. If the block is released from rest at a distance of 2.00
m above the floor, what is its speed just before it strikes the floor? c) Repeat the calculation part
(b), this time with the string wrapped around the edge of the larger disk. In which case is the final
speed of the block the greatest? Explain why this is so.