Physics 120 | 2 Newton’s Laws of Motion

Exercise Problems

1. A man is dragging a trunk up the loading ramp of a mover's truck. The ramp has
a slope angle of 20.0 , and the man pulls upward with a force F whose direction
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makes an angle of 30.0 with the ramp.

a) How large a force F is necessary for the component 𝐸𝑥 parallel to the ramp
to be 43.3N?
b) How large will the component Fy perpendicular to the ramp then be?

2. A sled is tied to a tree on a frictionless, snow-covered hill, as shown in the second

figure in the right. If the sled weighs 80 N, find the
a) force exerted by the rope on the sled; and the
b) normal force exerted by the hill on the sled.

3. An athlete whose mass is 90.0 kg is performing weight-lifting exercises. Starting

from the rest position, he lifts, with constant acceleration, a barbell that weighs
490 N. He lifts the barbell a distance of 0.60 m in 1.6 s. Find the total force that
his feet exert on the ground as he lifts the barbell.

4. In a physics lab experiment, a 6.00kg box is pushed across a flat table by a

horizontal force.
a) If the box is moving at constant speed of 0.350 m/s and the coefficient of
kinetic friction is 0.12, what is the magnitude of the force?
b) What is the magnitude of the force if the box is speeding up with a constant acceleration of 0.180m/s2?

5. A block of m =20.0 kg is placed on a plane incline at angle = 37.1° and is

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connected to a second hanging block with mass m by a cord passing over a

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small, frictionless pulley. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the plane and
the block is 0.30.
a) Find the mass m if it is to descend 12.0 m in the first 3.00 s after the system
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is released from rest.

b) Find the mass m for which the block m accelerate down the plane at a rate
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same as the magnitude in (a).

6. A small car with mass of 0.800 kg travels at a constant speed on the inside of a
track that is a vertical circle with radius 5.00 m. If the normal force exerted by the
track on the car when it is at the bottom of the track is 25 N,
a) What is the normal force on the car when it is at the (i) top, (ii) rightmost and
(iii) leftmost point of the track?
b) What is the speed of the car as it travels around the vertical circle?

7. A man weighs a fish with a spring scale attached to the ceiling of an elevator. While
the elevator is at rest, he measures a weight of 49.0 N.
a. What weight does the scale read if the elevator accelerates upward at 2.00 m/s ? 2

b. What weight does the scale read if the elevator accelerates downward at 2.00 m/s ? 2

8. A 2500 kg van accelerates down an icy driveway, going from rest to 30.0 m/s in
6.00 s. During its motion, a 0.100 kg stuffed toy hangs by a cord from the van’s
ceiling. The van’s acceleration is such that the cord remains perpendicular to the
ceiling. Determine the:
a) angle; and the
b) tension in the cord.

9. In a “Giant Swing” shown in figure, the seat is connected to two cables. One is
from the top of the central shaft which makes an angle of 40.0° with the vertical
and the other cable of 7.50 m is horizontal. The seat swings in a horizontal circle
at a rate of 25.1 m/s. If the seat weighs 245 N and a 540 N person is sitting in it,
find the tension in each cable.

10. Consider a banked wet curved roadway, where there is a coefficient of static
friction of 0.30 and a coefficient of kinetic friction of 0.25 between the tires and
the roadway. The radius of the curve is R = 50 m. If the banking angle is β= 25°
a) What is the maximum speed the automobile can have before sliding up the
banking?
b) What is the minimum speed the automobile can have before sliding down the banking?
Answers:

1. a) 69.3 N; b) 34.6 N
2. a) 40.0 N; b) 69.3 N
3. 1,395 N
4. a) 7.06N; b) 8.14 N
5. a) 30.6 kg; b) 8.97 kg
6. a) (i) 9.32 N (ii) 17.2 N (iii) 17.2 N
b) 10.4 m/s
7. a) 59 N; b) 39 N
8. a) 30.7o

b) 0.843 N
9. a) 1,025 N
b) 6,088 N
10. a) 20.9 m/s
b) 8.46 m/s

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