PHYSICS: CHAPTER 11: PE AND KE WORKSHEET NAME ___________________________

SHOW ALL WORK AND UNITS FOR THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS. 1. A 2.0 gram bullet leaves the barrel of a gun at a speed of 300 m/s. A. What is the KE of the bullet immediately after leaving the gun? B. If the length of the barrel is 50 cm, find the average net force exerted on the bullet by the expanding gases as it moves the length of the barrel.

2. A 1200 kg vehicle is moving along a horizontal surface with a speed of 20 m/s. What work must be done by the brakes to bring the vehicle to rest in 20 seconds? 3. A baseball player decides to show his skill by catching a 0.15 kg baseball dropped from the top of a 100 meter building. What is the speed of the ball just before it strikes his glove? 4. A child and sled with a combined mass of 50 kg slide down a frictionless hill. If the sled starts from rest and has acquired a speed of 3.0 m/s by the time it reaches the bottom of the hill, what is the height of the hill? 5. A 75 kg high jumper leaves the ground with a speed of 6.0 m/s. A. How high can he leap? B. What is his velocity when he is 0.5 meters off the ground on the way back down?

6. A baseball player throws a baseball straight up into the air with an initial speed of 20 m/s. A. What is the maximum height to which the ball rises? B. What is the speed of the ball when it is halfway up to its maximum height?

7. A child starts from rest at the top of a slide of height 4.0 m. A. What is her speed at the bottom of the frictionless slide? B. If she reaches the bottom with a speed of 6.0 m/s, what percentage of her total energy at the top of the slide is lost as a result of friction?

8. An airplane has a mass of 20000 kg and is moving at 30 m/s at an elevation of 9500 meters. The pilot revs the engine so that the forward thrust becomes 75000 N and goes into a dive. If the force of air resistance on the plane is 25000 N, what is the speed of the plane after it has traveled 300 meters and leveled off at 6250 meters? 9. An airplane has a mass of 25000 kg and is moving at 25 m/s. The pilot revs the engine so that the forward thrust becomes 75000 N. The airplane accelerates until it is moving 50 m/s. If the force of air resistance on the plane is 15000 N, over what distance did the forces act on the airplane? 10. A 25000 N car is moving at 30 m/s due south. Suddenly, the car collides with a 125000 N truck moving at 10 m/s in the opposite direction. A. What is the total kinetic energy before the collision? B. If the collision is inelastic, what is the velocity of the car/truck after the collisions? C. What is the total kinetic energy after the collisions?