Physics

Assignment-1

1. A 220-pound man jumps out a window into a fire net 36 feet below the net stretches 4.4 feet
before bringing him to rest a tossing him back into the air. What is the potential energy of the
stretched net?

2. An ideal massless spring can be compressed 2.33 cm by a force of 268 N. A block whose mass is m =
3.18 kg is released from rest a top of the incline as shown in Fig. the angle of the incline being 32.0
degree. The block comes to rest momentarily after it has=as compressed this spring by 5.48 cm. (a)
How far has the bock moved down the incline at this moment? (b) What is speed of the block just
as it touches the spring?
3. A pendulum is made by tying a 1.33 kg stone to a string 3.8 m long. The stone is projected
perpendicular to the string, away from the ground, with the string at an angle of 58 degree with the
vertical. It is observed to have speed of 8.12 m/s when it passes its lowest point. (a) What was the
speed of the stone when projected? (b) What is the largest angle with the vertical that the string
will reach during the stone’s motion? (c) Using the lowest point of the swing as the zero of
gravitational potential energy, calculate the total mechanical energy of the system.

4. One end of vertical spring is fastened to the ceiling. A weight is attached to the other end and
slowly lowered to its equilibrium position. Show that the loss of gravitational potential energy of
the weight equal one- half the gain in spring potential energy. (Why are these two quantities not
equal?)

5. A 1.18 kg object is acted on by a net conservative force given exactly by Fx = Ac +Bx2 where A= -3
N/m and B = -5 N/m2. Find the P.E. of the system at x = 2.26 m. Assume that U (0) = 0. (b) The object
has a speed of 4.13 m/s in the negative x direction when it is at x= 4.91 m. Find its speed as it
passes x = 1.77 m.