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WORKSHEET 5: WORK, POWER AND ENERGY

1. In the following sentence, is the everyday meaning or the scientific meaning of work intended? Explain.
A coach does work on the bleachers by moving them into place before the basketball game.

2. A child does 5.0 J of work on a spring while loading a ball into a spring-loaded toy gun. If mechanical
energy is conserved, what will be the kinetic energy of the ball when it leaves the gun?

3. How much work is done on a bookshelf being pulled 5.00 m at an angle of 37.0 degrees from the horizontal?
The magnitude of the component of the force that does the work is 43.0 N.

4. A hill is 100 m long and makes an angle of 12 degrees with the horizontal. As a 50 kg jogger runs up the hill,
how much work does the jogger do against gravity?

5. A skier with a mass of 88 kg hits a ramp of snow at 16 m/s and becomes airborne. At the highest point of
flight, the skier is 3.7 m above the ground. What is the skier’s gravitational potential energy at this point?

6. Given the following data, solve for the:

a. work done
b. power exerted
c. kinetic energy
d. potential energy

STUDENT MASS (kg) DISTANCE (m) TIME (s) CHANGE IN

HEIGHT (m)
A 40 20 35 15
B 35 20 25 15
C 55 20 55 15

1. Which exerted the greatest amount of work?

2. Which is more powerful?
3. Who exerted the highest amount of KE and PE?
4. What do your computations tell you?