Wachemo University/CNCS/Department of Physics/Group Assignment on

Physics for Remedial Students

Total weight: 10%

Submission date: 22/08/16 E.C
Instruction: Show all the necessary steps.
1. A basketball of mass 600 g which was resting on a hoop falls to the ground 3.05 m below.
(i) What is the maximum kinetic energy of the ball as it falls?
(ii) On bouncing from the ground the ball loses 6 joules of energy. What
happens to the energy lost by the ball?
(iii) Calculate the height of the first bounce of the ball.

2. A crate of mass 10.0 kg is pulled up a rough incline with an initial speed of 1.50 m/s. The
pulling force is 100 N parallel to the incline, which makes an angle of 20.0° with the
horizontal. The coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.400, and the crate is pulled 5.00 m. (a) How
much work is done by the gravitational force on the crate? (b) Determine the increase in
internal energy of the crate–incline system owing to friction. (c) How much work is done by
the 100-N force on the crate? (d) What is the change in kinetic energy of the crate? (e) What
is the speed of the crate after being pulled 5.00 m?
3. An object with a mass of m = 5.10 kg is attached to the free end of a light string wrapped
around a reel of radius R = 0.250 m and mass M = 3.00 kg. The reel is a solid disk, free to rotate
in a vertical plane about the horizontal axis passing through its center. The suspended object is
released from rest 6.00 m above the floor. Determine (a) the tension in the string, (b) the
acceleration of the object, and (c) the speed with which the object hits the floor.
4. A simple pendulum with a length of 2.23 m and a mass of 6.74 kg is given an initial speed of
2.06 m/s at its equilibrium position. Assume it undergoes simple harmonic motion. Determine (a)
its period, (b) its total energy, and (c) its maximum angular displacement.
5. An aluminum rod 0.500 m in length and with a cross-sectional area of 2.50 cm2 is inserted
into a thermally insulated vessel containing liquid helium at 4.20 K. The rod is initially at 300 K.
(a) If one half of the rod is inserted into the helium, how many liters of helium boil off by the
time the inserted half cools to 4.20 K? Assume the upper half does not yet cool. (b) If the circular
surface of the upper end of the rod is maintained at 300 K, what is the approximate boil-off rate
of liquid helium after the lower half has reached 4.20 K? (Aluminum has thermal conductivity of
3100 W/m·K at 4.20 K; ignore its temperature variation. The density of liquid helium is 125 kg/m3.)