Assignment # 1

Total Marks: 20
Semester: Spring 2021 Due Date:
General Science (GSC101) 09th June, 2021

Objective:
The assignment has been designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding of Physics and its
applications in your daily life.
Instructions:
Please read the following instructions carefully before solving & submitting assignment:
 To solve this assignment, you should have good command over first 15 lectures.
 Do not rely only on handouts but watch the course video lectures and read additional
material available online
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Question No. 1 (Marks =

10)

A car moving on a road suddenly applies breaks at point A and come to rest after at point B
as shown in the given figure. If car was moving with 8 m/s, find out
1. Magnitude of force required to stop the car
2. Time taken by car to come to rest
Question No. 2 (Marks
=10)

A man applied an external force at θ = 370 to pulls a wagon with a child on rough horizontal
floor as shown in the figure. The force of friction between cart and floor is 22 N.
Using the given data, Find out the
1. Total Weight pulled by man
2. Magnitude of Applied force F
3. Normal force acting on cart by floor
4. Total work done
5. Also draw the free body diagram

Warning! Zero marks will be awarded to the assignment if copied from other student’s
assignment files or copied from internet resources.