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SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

1) Find the work done by a person pulling a wagon containing 60.0 lb of bricks across 36.0 ft of level floor by
exerting a constant force of 21.0 lb.
Answer: 756 ft lb

2) How much work (in ft lb) is done by a large bucket that can lift 4.5 tons of dirt 14 ft into the air and dump it into
a 5.0 yd3 dump truck?
Answer: 130,000 ft lb

3) A mechanical lift raises a 325 kg automobile 2.00 m for servicing. How much work was done by the lift?
Answer: 6370 N m

4) A pallet is pulled 125 m across a floor by a cable that makes an angle of 45° with the floor. If 1150 N is exerted
on the cable, how much work is done?
Answer: 102,000 N m

5) How much power is required to lift a 575 lb weight 30.0 ft in 4.00 s?

Answer: 4310 ft lb/s

6) How much power is required to lift a 225 kg body 15.0 m in 5.00 s?

Answer: 6620 W or 6.62 kW

7) How much time is required to lift a 1275 lb object 45.0 ft with a motor that produces 15.0 hp?
Answer: 6.95 s

8) How much time is required to lift a 525 kg object 25.0 m with a motor that produces 2.50 kW?
Answer: 51.5 s

9) What maximum mass can be lifted 45.0 m in 1.00 min by a 1.50 kW motor?
Answer: 204 kg

10) A pump is capable of developing 5.0 kW of power. How many liters of water per minute can be lifted a distance
of 25 m? (1 L of water has a mass of 1 kg.)
Answer: 1200 L/min

11) Find the potential energy of a 1250 lb counter balance in an elevator that is raised 45.0 ft from its lowest point.
Answer: 56,300 ft lb

12) Find the kinetic energy of a 310 kg wrecking ball moving at 4.0 m/s.
Answer: 2500 J or 2.5 kJ

13) Find the kinetic energy of a 5.0 ton truck traveling at 65 mi/h.
Answer: 140,000 ft lb

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14) Water is pumped at the rate of 275 m3 /min from a lake into a tank on a hill 75.0 m above the lake. (1 m 3 = 1000
L)
a. What power (in kW) must be delivered by the pump?
b. What horsepower rating must this pump motor have?
c. What is the increase in potential energy of the water each minute?
d. Assuming 25% of the pump power is lost, what power (in kW) must be delivered by the pump?
Answer: (a) 3370 kW (b) 4520 hp (c) 202 MJ (d) 4210 kW

15) A pile driver weighs 975 lb and falls from a height of 45.0 ft. Find its velocity as it hits the pile.
Answer: 53.8 ft/s

16) A 55.0 g bullet is fired vertically with an initial velocity of 123 m/s.
a. What is its velocity at its highest point of travel?
b. What maximum height does it reach?
c. At what velocity does it hit the ground?
Answer: (a) 0 (b) 797 m (c) 125 m/s

17) A 2.00 lb rock is dropped from a bridge to the water 50.0 ft below.
a. What is its velocity as it hits the water?
b. How long does it take to hit the water?
c. What is its kinetic energy as it hits the water?
Answer: (a) 56.7 ft/s (b) 1.76 s (c) 99.8 ft lb

18) A 2.50 N rock is thrown downward from a cliff at 10.0 m/s.

a. What is its velocity after falling 25.0 m?
b. What is its velocity as it hits the water 125 m below?
c. What is its kinetic energy as it hits the water?
Answer: (a) 24.3 m/s (b) 50.5 m/s (c) 325 J

19) A farmer lifts a dozen 10 lb sacks of grain from the ground to the bed of his truck 3.50 ft above the ground. What
is the total work done?
Answer: W = 420 ft lb

20) A 1.0 ton beam is raised 35 ft in 2.0 minutes.

a. How much work was done?
b. How much power (in horsepower) did it take?
Answer: (a) 7,000 ft lb (b) P = 1.1 hp

21) An electric motor running on a 12 volt receptacle is drawing 8.00 Amps of current. What is the motor's power?
Express your answer in both watts and horsepower.
Answer: P = 96 W; P = 1.29 hp