F=ma and Weight Practice

1. Find the weight of a 100 N dog.

2. Find the weight of a 2 kg book.
3. Find the mass of a 4 kg stone.
4. Find the mass of a 165 N child.
5. A 20 kg crate of physics books is at rest on a table. What is the normal force on the
books?
6. A 500 N boy is standing on frictionless roller skates. If someone pulls him,
horizontally, with 40 N of force to the North, what will be his acceleration?

7. A big 100 kg box is rolling on frictionless wheels, to the West at 4 m/s. If you need to
stop it in 2 seconds, what force will this require (direction too)?

8. A 60 kg girl stands on a bathroom scale. What will the scale read if she stands
perfectly still?
9. An elevator is ascending at a constant speed. What will be the normal force on a
245 N child?
b) The elevator slows to a stop at an acceleration of 4 m/s 2. What will the normal force
be during this acceleration?

10. An 80 kg basketball player jumps, by accelerating himself upwards at 16 m/s2.

What force do his shoes exert on the ground during this acceleration?