Physics I

Energy work sheet

Name: Class:

1. You are on roller blades on top of a small hill. Your potential energy is equal to 1,000.0 joules. The last time
you checked your mass was 60.0 kilograms.

a. What is your weight in newtons?

b. What is the height of the hill?

c. If you start skating down this hill, your potential energy will be converted to kinetic energy. At the
bottom of the hill, your kinetic energy will be equal to your potential energy at the top. What will be
your speed at the bottom of the hill?

2. What is the kinetic energy of a 2-kilogram ball is thrown into the air with an initial velocity of 30 m/s?

3. What is the velocity of a 500-kilogram elevator that has 4,000 joules of energy?

4. What is the mass of an object that creates 33,750 joules of energy by traveling at 20 m/s?
5. Two objects were lifted by a machine. One object had a mass of 2 kilograms, and was lifted at a speed of 2
m/s. The other had a mass of 4 kilograms and was lifted at a rate of 3 m/s.

a. Which object had more kinetic energy while it was being lifted?

b. Which object had more potential energy when it was lifted to a distance of 10 meters? Show your
calculation.

6. A 5kg cat is lifted 2m into the air. How much Gravitational Potential Energy does it gains?

7. A large block of stone is held at a height of 15 m having gained 4500 J of Gravitational potential energy.
How much does it weigh?

8. A really big beast of a block of stone of weight 600 N gains 36000J of gravitational potential energy. How
high has it been raised?

9. A raging bull of mass 700 kg runs at 10 m/s. How much kinetic energy does it have?

10. A waddling armadillo of mass 500kg moves at 5 m/s. How much kinetic energy does it have?
11. A stroppy teenager throws their PS4 controller at the wall after losing at FIFA. It has 78.125 J of kinetic
energy and moves at 25 m/s before it hits the wall. How much mass does it have?

12. A slightly disturbed man of 80 kg runs directly into a wall with a kinetic energy of 4000 J. How fast is he
running?

13. A student slides a 0.75 kg textbook across a table, and it comes to rest after traveling 1.2 m. Given that the
coefficient of kinetic friction between the book and the table is 0.34, use the work–kinetic energy theorem to
find the book’s initial speed.

14. A spring has 900J of energy applied to it. It has a spring constant of 20N/m. Calculate the extension.

15. Calculate the spring constant of a spring that stores 100 J of energy when compressed 500 cm
II. Use the following graph that shows a ball rolling from A to G to answer the following questions.

1. Which sequence correctly shows a resulting increase in potential energy?

A. C, D, E, F B. B, F, E, C
C. D, E, B, F D. A, G, F, C

2. Which sequence correctly shows a resulting increase in kinetic energy?

A. E, F, B, G B. B, F, E, C
C. D, E, B, F D. A, B, C, D

3. Which sequence correctly shows a resulting decrease in kinetic energy?

A. E, F, B, G B. B, F, E, C
C. D, E, F, G D. A, G, F, C

4. Which sequence correctly shows a resulting decrease in potential energy?

A. E, F, B, G B. A, B, C, D
C. D, E, B, F D. A, G, F, C