Addu High School DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE 2. A student reads the following statement in a novel.

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A man weighing 70 kilograms will fall 100 metres in less than 5
Topic: Vectors and projectile motion Worksheet 1 seconds.

(a) Comment on the use of the word weighing.

1. The photograph shows a climber abseiling down a rock face. At
the instant shown the climber is in equilibrium. (b) Make an appropriate calculation to check whether the
statement is correct. Assume the man falls from rest.

(c) Calculate the kinetic energy of the man after falling

100m from rest.

3. The force produced by the engine of a car which drives it is

ultimately transmitted to the area of contact between the cars
tyres and the road surface. The diagram shows a wheel at an
instant during the motion of the car when it is being driven
forward in the direction indicated.
D ire c tio n o f m o tio n o f c a r

(a) Explain what is meant by equilibrium in this context. Ty re

(b) The climbers mass is 65 kg. Calculate his weight.

(c) Below is an incomplete free-body force diagram for the climber.

R o ad su rfac e
d ire c tio n o f ro p e
F 1 F2
C o n ta c t p o in t
b e tw e e n
ro a d a n d ty re

Two horizontal forces act at the point of contact between the

tyre and road due to the transmitted force from the engine.
These are shown as F1 and F2. Assume that the area of
(i) The rope is at an angle of 40 to the horizontal. Calculate the
contact between the tyre and road is very small.
tension in the rope.

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 (a) Complete the statements

(i) F1 is the force of the...................................... on

the ...................................... .

(ii) F2 is the force of the...................................... on

the ...................................... .
(b) The total forward force on the car is 400 N when the car is
1 the girl to the shelf is 5m The girl throws the ball with speed u ms-1 at
travelling at a constant speed of 10 m s along a level road.
Calculate the effective power driving the car forward.
(c) Hence calculate the total work done by the 400 N force in 5 minutes
1
in maintaining the speed of 10 m s .
(d) Although work is done on the car, it continues to move at a constant
speed. Explain why the car is not gaining kinetic energy.
4. A weightlifter raised a bar of mass of 110 kg through a height
of 2.22 m. The bar was then dropped and fell freely to the
floor.
(i) Show that the work done in raising the bar was about
2400J.
(ii) It took 3.0 s to raise the bar. Calculate the average
power used.
1. A girl is attempting to throw a ball across her bedroom onto a shelf.
The shelf is 2m above floor level and the horizontal distance from
an angle of 30o to the horizontal. It lands on the nearest edge of the
shelf.
(a)
Show the time of flight of the ball is 5/u cos 300
(b) Find the value of u
2. A cricketer bowls a ball from a height of 2.3 m. The ball leaves the
hand horizontally with a velocity u. After bouncing once, it passes
just over the stumps at the top of its bounce. The stumps are 0.71
m high and are situated 20 m from where the bowler releases the
ball.
u
2 .3 m

(iii) State the principle of conservation of energy.

0 .7 1 m

(iv) Describe how the principle of conservation of energy S tu m p s

20 m
applies to
(1) lifting the bar
(a) Show that from the moment it is released, the ball takes about 0.7 s
to fall 2.3 m.
lifting the bar,
(b) How long does it take the ball to rise 0.71 m after bouncing?
(2) the bar falling to the floor. Do not include the
impact with the floor.
(c) Use your answers to parts (a) and (b) to calculate the initial
horizontal velocity u of the ball. You may assume that the horizontal
(v) Calculate the speed of the bar at the instant it reaches
velocity has remained constant.
the floor.
(d) In reality the horizontal velocity would not be constant. State one
reason why.

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 3. A ball is dropped from a high window onto a concrete floor. The S 1 A
velocitytime graph for part of its motion is shown. B

v /m s 1
A
30

20

10 x
0
0 2 4 6 t/s
10 C lo c k

20

30

T ra p d o o r s w itc h

(a) Calculate the gradient from the origin to A.

(b) Comment on the significance of your answer.
(c) What happened to the ball at point A?
(d) Calculate the height of the window above the ground.
4. A lamp is suspended from two wires as shown in the diagram. The
tension in each wire is 4.5N.
(a) State what happens at the instant when the switch S1 is moved
from A to B.
(b) The distance x is 1.00 m. Calculate the time for the ball to fall
this distance.
(c) In a second experiment the ball is fired horizontally from the
edge of a table 1.00 m high.

2 .0 0 m
4 .5 N 4 .5 N
40 40

1 .0 0 m

(a) Calculate the magnitude of the resultant force exerted on the lamp
by the wires. (d) State with a reason the time for the ball to reach the ground.

(b) What is the weight of the lamp? Explain your answer. (e) The ball hits the floor a horizontal distance of 2.00 m from the
edge of the table. Calculate the speed at which the ball was
5. The diagram shows an apparatus for timing a falling ball. fired.

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 6. The figure shows a rollercoaster train that is being accelerated
when it is pulled horizontally by a cable.

(a) The train accelerates from rest to a speed of 58ms1 in 3.5 s.

The mass of the fully loaded train is 5800 kg. Calculate the
average acceleration of the train.
(b) Calculate the average tension in the cable as the train is
accelerated, stating an appropriate unit.
(c) Calculate the distance the train moves while accelerating from
rest to 58ms1.
7. The figure shows two different rifles being fired horizontally from a
height of 1.5m above ground level.
Assume the air resistance experienced by the bullets is negligible.
Explain why the ball can be caught even though it was thrown
vertically upwards and the skateboarder is moving horizontally.
Ignore the effect of air resistance.
9. A student is required to measure the speed of a trolley rolling down
a slope. This could be done using a ruler and stopwatch but the
student prefers a method using ICT.
(a) The student uses a light gate as shown in the diagram.
Describe how the student obtains the measurements needed to
calculate speed.

(a) When rifle A is fired, the bullet has a horizontal velocity of 430ms1
as it leaves the rifle. Assume the ground is level.
(i) Calculate the time that the bullet is in the air before it hits the
ground.
(ii) Calculate the horizontal distance travelled by the bullet
before it hits the ground.

(b) Rifle B is fired and the bullet emerges with a smaller horizontal
velocity than the bullet from rifle A.
(i) Explain why the horizontal distance travelled by bullet B will (b) The student thinks that the stopwatch method is less reliable than
be less than bullet A. the ICT method.
Discuss what makes using a stopwatch less reliable

8. A skateboarder throws a ball vertically upwards, while travelling at

a constant horizontal speed. The skateboarder catches the ball 10. The photograph shows an arrangement used to launch a light,
moments later whilst still moving horizontally. foam rocket at a school science competition.

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 (a) The rocket travels 1.88 m in a time of 0.88 s.

(i) Show that the horizontal component of the initial velocity of

the rocket is about 2 m s1.
(ii) Show that the vertical component of the initial velocity of the
rocket is about 4 m s1.
(iii) Calculate the initial velocity of the rocket.

(b) The students obtained their data by filming the flight. When they
checked the maximum height reached by the rocket they found it
was less than the height predicted using this velocity.

(i)
The rocket is launched at the level of one end of a long table and lands at (ii)
the other end at the same level. The students measure the horizontal
distance travelled by the rocket and the time of flight.
Suggest why the maximum height reached was less than
predicted.
Give two advantages of filming the flight to obtain the data.

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