Assignment Questions for Remedial Students

1. A 230 kg crate hangs from the end of a rope of length L = 12.0 m. You push
horizontally on the crate with a varying force to move it distance d = 4.00 m to the
side (Fig. 1). (a) What is the magnitude of when the crate is in this final position?
During the crate’s displacement, what are (b) the total work done on it, (c) the work
done by the gravitational force on the crate, and (d) the work done by the pull on the
crate from the rope? (e) Knowing that the crate is motionless before and after its
displacement, use the answers to (b), (c), and (d) to find the work your force does on
the crate. (f) Why is the work of your force not equal to the product of the horizontal
displacement and the answer to (a)?

2. In the fig 2, a block of mass m =12 kg is released from rest on a frictionless incline of
angle θ = 30. Below the block is a spring that can be compressed 2.0 cm by a force of
270 N. The block momentarily stops when it compresses the spring by 5.5 cm.
(a) How far does the block move down the incline from its rest position to this
stopping point? (b) What is the speed of the block just as it touches the spring?

3. In the “before” part of Fig. 3, car A (mass 1100 kg) is stopped at a traffic light when it
is rear-ended by car B (mass 1400 kg). Both cars then slide with locked wheels until
the frictional force from the slick road (with a low mk of 0.13) stops them, at
distances dA = 8.2 m and dB = 6.1 m. What are the speeds of (a) car A and (b) car B at
 the start of the sliding, just after the collision? (c) Assuming that linear momentum is
conserved during the collision, find the speed of car B just before the collision. (d)
Explain why this assumption may be invalid.

4. A lab sample of gas is taken through cycle abca shown in the p-V diagram of Fig.
4 .The net work done is "1.2 J. Along path ab, the change in the internal energy is "3.0
J and the magnitude of the work done is 5.0 J. Along path ca, the energy transferred to
the gas as heat is "2.5 J. How much energy is transferred as heat along (a) path ab and
(b) path bc?

5. In Fig. 5, the three particles are fixed in place and have charges
q 1=q 2=+e∧q 3=+2 e . Distance a = 6.00 μm. What are the (a) magnitude and (b)
direction of the net electric field at point P due to the particles?