PHY11 WORK, ENERGY, POWER/IMPULSE, MOMENTUM SAMPLE PROBLEMS

1. A 50.0-kg block and 100-kg block are connected by a string (see figure at the right). The pulley is
frictionless and of negligible mass. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the 50-kg block and
incline is 0.250. Determine the change in the kinetic energy of the 50-kg block as it moves from A
to B, a distance of 20.0 m. Use Work-Energy Theorem.

2. A 1200-kg car requires 50 HP to move up an 8o incline at a constant speed of 25 km/h. Determine

the
A. force needed by the car to move up the incline.
B. coefficient of kinetic friction between the car’s tires and the incline. (Use Work-Energy
Theorem)

3. 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.

4. In a slow-pitch softball game, a 0.200-kg softball crosses

the plate at 15.0 m/s at an angle of 45 o below the
horizontal. The batter hits the ball toward center field,
giving it a velocity of 40.0 m/s at 30o above the
horizontal. Determine the impulse delivered to the ball.

5. Two shuffleboard disks of equal mass, one orange and

the other yellow, are involved in an elastic, glancing collision. The yellow disk is initially at rest and
is struck by the orange disk moving with a speed of 5.00 m/s. After the collision, the orange disk
moves along a direction that makes an angle of 37.0° with its initial direction of motion. The
velocities of the two disks are perpendicular after the collision. Determine the final speed of each
disk.

6. . 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. What was the speed of each person before the collision?

7. . A billiard ball moving at 5.00 m/s strikes a stationary ball of the same mass. After the collision,
the first ball moves at 4.33 m/s, at an angle of 30.0° with respect to the original line of motion.
Assuming an elastic collision (and ignoring friction and rotational motion), find the struck ball's
velocity (magnitude and direction) after the collision.

8.Block 1 of mass m1 slides from rest along a

frictionless ramp from height h = 2.50 m and then
collides with stationary block 2, which has mass m2 =
2.0 m1. After the collision, block 2 slides into a region
where the coefficient of kinetic friction μk is 0.500 and
comes to a stop in distance d within that region. What
is the value of distance d if the collision is elastic?