CHAPTER 1

1. A vector has an x-component of 30 units and a y-component

of 40 units. Find the magnitude and direction of this vector.

2. Vector A has a magnitude of 8.0 units and makes an angle of

30 with the positive x axis. Another vector B has a
magnitude of 6.0 units and is directed along the negative x P
axis. Using graphical methods, find (a) the vector sum (A + 100 N
B) and (b) the vector difference (A B).
350 N
3. FIGURE 1 shows three forces acting on an object. If the
resultant force is zero, calculate the force represented by P.
FIGURE 1
4. Find the sum of these four vector forces: 12.5 N to the right
at 35 above the horizontal, 31.8 N to the left at 55 above
the horizontal, 81.4 N to the left at 30 below the horizontal,
and 24.0 N to the right at 50 below the horizontal.

5. The readings on the meter board of a ship shows it is heading

South-East at a speed of 50 km per hour. At that instant, the
wind is blowing at 15 km per hour due North. What is the B A
velocity of the ship. 30 A 40
o o
6. Three vectors A, B and C are as shown in the FIGURE 2,
where A = 60 units, B = 40 units and C = 70 units. Find the
vector represented by (a) P = A + B C and (b) Q = 2A C
3B + C A 10
o
FIGURE 2
7. The resultant of four forces acting on an object is 100N in
the y direction. If the three known forces are 80N at 30 o
with the +x-axis, 170N at 40o below the +x-axis and 200N at
50o above the x-axis, what is the magnitude and direction of
the fourth force.

8. The force on a charge q that moves with velocity v in a

magnetic field is given by F q v B . What is the
magnitude of the force on a proton that moves with a speed
of 1.2 105 ms-1 that enters a magnetic field 0.08T at an
angle 30o with the field. (Given: charge of proton, q = 1.602
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CHAPTER 2

1. An airplane starting from airport A flies 300 km east, then 350 km at 30 west of
north, and then 150 km South-East to arrive finally at airport B. (a) The next day,
another plane flies directly from A to B in a straight line. In what direction should the
pilot travel in this direct flight? (b) How far will the pilot travel in this direct flight?

2. In an expedition, a group of boys walk 60 m due North, 100m due West, 50m at 30o
East of North, 70m South-East and 30m South. How far does their final position from
the starting point?

3. Kasim drives South at 70 km hr-1 for 2 hours and then continues heading West at 80 km hr-1
for hour. What is his (a) average speed (b) average velocity?

4. A motorist drives north for 35 minutes at 85.0 km hr-1 and then stops for 15 minutes.
He then continues north, traveling 130 km in 2 hours. (a) What is his total
displacement? (b) What is his average velocity?

5. A car moving at constant speed of 110 km hr-1 is 10 km behind a bus traveling a

constant speed at 70 km hr-1 in the same direction. What is the distance made by the
car before it overtakes the bus?
6. A person takes a trip, driving with a constant speed of 89.5 km hr-1 except for a 22-
min rest stop. If the persons average speed is 77.8 km hr-1, how much time is spent
on the trip and how far does the person travel?
7. A truck covers 40 m in 8.5 s while smoothly slowing down to final speed of 2.8 ms-1.
Find (a) its initial speed. (b) its acceleration.
8. A small aircraft has a lift-off speed of 120 km hr-1. (a) What minimum constant
acceleration does this require if the aircraft is to be airborne after a takeoff run of 240
m? (b) How long does it take the aircraft to become airborne?

9. A car starts from rest and travels for 5.0 s with a uniform acceleration of + 1.5 ms-2.
The driver then applies the brakes, causing a uniform acceleration of -2.0 m/s2. If the
brakes are applied for 3.0 s, (a) how fast is the car going at the end of the braking
period, and (b) how far has it gone?

10. A ball is thrown straight upward and returns to the throwers hand after 3.00 s in the
air. A second ball is thrown at an angle of 30.0 with the horizontal. At what speed
must the second ball be thrown so that it reaches the same height as the one thrown
vertically?

11. A paratrooper jumps freely from a plane for the first 100m. When the parachute
opens it will provide an upward acceleration of 2.5 ms-2. If he lands on the ground
with a speed of 3 ms-1, how long is his time of flight. What is the height of the plane?

12. A brick is thrown upward from the top of a building at an angle of 25 to the
horizontal and with an initial speed of 15 m s-1. If the brick is in flight for 3.0 s, how
tall is the building?

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CHAPTER 3

1. The system in FIGURE 1 is in equilibrium. Calculate the tension of each string.

2. In FIGURE 2, what should be the maximum force W for the system to be in

equilibrium if the friction force on the block A is not to exceed 400N.

30o
T3
A
T2 55o
W
W
Q
T1

160 N
FIGURE 1 FIGURE 2

3. What is the minimum horizontal force to stop a 40 kg box from sliding down an
inclined plane of coefficient of friction 0.2, given that the plane is 50o to the
horizontal?

4. A 6.0-kg object undergoes an acceleration of 2.0 m s-2. (a) What is the magnitude of
the resultant force acting on it? (b) If this same force is applied to a 4.0-kg object,
what acceleration is produced?

5. The air exerts a forward force of 10 N on the propeller of a 0.20-kg model airplane. If
the plane accelerates forward at 2.0 ms-2, what is the magnitude of the resistive force
exerted by the air on the airplane?

6. A 1000-kg boat moves through the water with two forces acting on it. One is a 2 000-
N forward push by the water on the propeller, and the other is a 1 800-N resistive
force due to the water around the bow. (a) If it starts from rest, how far will the boat
move in 10 s? (b) What will its velocity be at the end of that time?

7. A boy of mass 35kg stands on a weighing machine inside a lift. What will be the
reading of the machine while the lift is (a) accelerating upward at 2.0 ms -2 (b) moving
down at constant speed of 2.0 ms-1.

8. A woman at an airport is towing her 20.0-kg suitcase at constant speed by pulling on a

strap at an angle above the horizontal.. She pulls on the strap with a 35.0-N force,
and the friction force on the suitcase is 20.0 N. Draw a free-body diagram of the
suitcase. (a) What angle does the strap make with the horizontal? (b) What normal
force does the ground exert on the suitcase?

9. When braking on a dry road, a car skids a distance of 38m before it stops. Assuming it
is at the same speed, how far does it skid on a wet road? Given, the coefficients of
friction when dry is 0.95 and when wet is 0.2.

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10. In FIGURE 3, the three blocks are in contact and the surface frictionless. Determine
(a) the acceleration of the system (b) the force exerted by the 5kg block on the 3kg
block.

11. FIGURE 4 shows three block moves on frictionless surface being pulled by a 63N
horizontal force. Calculate (a) the acceleration of the system (b) the tension of the
string (c) the force exerted by the 2kg block on the 3 kg block.

T 63 N
2 kg 4 kg
30 N 5 kg 3 kg
2 kg 3 kg

FIGURE 3 FIGURE 4

12. Refering to FIGURE 5, what is the ratio of m1: m2 to keep the system in equilibrium?

13. In FIGURE 5, if m1 = 3kg and m2 = 5kg, and the coefficient of friction on both sides
of the inclined is 0.3 what is (a) the acceleration of the system (b) the tension of the
string.

14. In FIGURE 5, m1 = m2 and the coefficient on both sides is 0.3. If m1 is pushed slightly
such that it moves with an initial speed of 0.9 ms-1, how far does it moved before it
stops.

15. In FIGURE 6, m1 = 200g, m2 = 500g, m3 = 300 and the coefficient of friction on both
surfaces 0.3. Calculate the acceleration of the system and the tensions T1 and T2.

m2
53o
T1
m1 T2 m1
m2 53o 53o
53o m3
53o 37o 30o
53o
FIGURE 5 FIGURE 6

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CHAPTER 4

1. A shopper in a supermarket pushes a cart with a force of 35 N directed at an angle of 25

downward from the horizontal. Find the work done by the shopper as she moves a total
distance of 50 m in the supermarket.

2. A horizontal force of 150 N is used to push a 40 kg crate a distance of 6.0 m on a rough

horizontal surface. If the crate moves at constant speed, determine (a) the work done by the
150 N force and (b) the coefficient of kinetic friction between the crate and surface.

3. FIGURE 1 shows the forces on a box being pulled by a 180 N force

up an inclined plane. Calculate the work done by each force, if the
box has been moved 2.0 m up along the plane.

4. A small bead of mass 50 g is released from point A and slides on the

frictionless track shown in FIGURE 2. Determine (a) the beads
speed at point B. (b) the net work done by the force of gravity in
moving the bead from A to C.

5. A 2500 kg car moves down a level highway driven by a 1000 N forward force exerted on the
drive wheels and a 750 N resistive force by the road. Find the speed of the car after it has
moved a distance of 20 m, assuming that it starts from rest.

6. A child on a roller skate with a combined mass of 50.0 kg moves down a slope. If he starts
from rest and has a speed of 3.5 ms-1 at end of the slope, what is the height of the slope?

7. A 0.25 kg block is placed on a light vertical spring and pushed downwards, compressing the
spring by 0.10 m. After the block is released, it leaves the spring and continues to travel
vertically upwards. If the spring constant is 5.0 103 Nm-1, what height above the point of
release will the block reach?

8. A construction worker used a motor-driven cable to pull a 70 kg crate of bricks up a 30

inclined slope of length 60 m. Assuming the slope smooth and the man is pulling at constant
speed of 2.0 ms-1 (a) How much work is done by the man (b) What is the power of the
motor?

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9. A driver notices he is slowing down from 85 km hr-1 to 65 km hr-1 in 6.0 s on a level road. If
the mass of the car is 1150 kg, what is the power delivered by the engine?

10. A boy on skate board starts from rest on an 12 m inclined ramp 20o with the horizontal. At
the end of the ramp he continues moving on the horizontal floor. If the coefficient of friction
on both surfaces is 0.15, how far does he move on the horizontal floor before coming to rest?

11. A hydropower station has a resevoir that is 450 m high and can generate a total power of 300
MW continuously for 5 hours. What is (a) the total energy generated by the station (b) the
volume of water falls per second to generate this power.

12. A bullet of mass 800 g and speed of 600 ms-1 is shot into a solid wall. If the bullet
penetrated to depth of 5.0 cm into the wall, determine (a) the average force and (b) the time
taken to stop the bullet.

A
13. FIGURE 3 shows a metal block of mass 2.0 kg slides from rest at A.
The curved track is smooth and form quadrant of a circle of radius 2.0m
2.0 m. The block stops at a distance 3m on the horizontal track.
What is (a) the work done by friction and (b) the coefficient of B 3.0m C
friction of the horizontal track. A

14. FIGURE 4 shows an upward slanted track at 48o with the horizontal.
A roller skater moving along the horizontal section at 5.4 ms-1 and
leaves the end track at 0.4 m above the ground. By ignoring energy
loss by friction, determine the height H and the the distance R.

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CHAPTER 5

1. A 0.5 kg football is thrown toward the east with a speed of 15.0 ms-1. A stationary receiver
catches the ball and brings it to rest in 0.02 s. (a) What is the impulse delivered to the ball
as it is caught? (b) What is the average force exerted on the receiver?

2. An 8.0 g bullet is shot into a 2.0 kg wooden block that is free to move on a smooth surface.
After the collision, the bullet is embedded in the block and moves at 2 cm s -1. What is the
speed of the bullet?

3. An 8.0 g bullet is fired into a 250 g block that is initially at rest at the edge of a table of
height 1.0 m. After the impact, the bullet remains in the block, and the block falls under
gravity and lands 2.0 m from the bottom of the table. Determine the initial speed of the
bullet.

4. A 1200 kg car traveling initially with a speed of 25.0 ms-1 in an easterly direction crashes
into the rear end of a 9000 kg truck moving in the same direction at 20.0 ms-1. The velocity
of the car right after the collision is 18.0 ms-1 to the east. (a) What is the velocity of the
truck right after the collision? (b) How much mechanical energy is lost in the collision?

5. A 700 N man holds a 30 N rifle firmly against his shoulder. He fires a 5.0 g bullet with a
speed of 300 ms-1. Find the recoil speed of the man and rifle.

6. A ball of mass 800 g moving at 30 cm s-1 collides obliquely with a 500 g ball moving at 50
cm s-1 in the opposite direction. After the collision, the first ball move with a speed of 15
cm s-1 at 30o to its initial direction. What is the velocity of the second ball?

7. A ball with mass 0.4 kg and velocity 4.2 ms-1 makes a head-on collision with another ball
of mass 0.2 kg which is at rest. After the collision, both balls stick together and moves up a
ramp which makes an angle 30o with the horizontal as in FIGURE 1. Neglecting friction,
determine the maximum height reached by the ball on the ramp.

8. FIGURE 2 shows a 1.5 kg ball hanging from a ceiling by a 150 cm string intially at 40 o
with the vertical. When released it collides elastically with a 3.0kg box at rest on a smooth
surface. After collision the box moves and compresses a spring of spring constant 800 N m-
1
. If the maximum compression is 18.0 cm, what is the velocity of the ball before after it
strikes the box?

kg kg

FIGURE 2
FIGURE 1

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CHAPTER 6

1 A car travels at a constant speed around a circular track whose radius is 2.6 km. The car
goes once around the track in 360 s. What is the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration
of the car?

2 A child stabds at the rim of a merry-go-round of radius 2.0m, rotating at 10.0 rpm.
Determine the minimum coefficient of friction between the her feet and floor to keep her
in circular motion?

3. A racetrack has the shape of an inverted cone, as the figure.

On this surface the cars race in circles that are parallel to the
ground. For a speed of 34.0 ms-1, at what value of the
distance d should a driver locate his car if he wishes to stay
on a circular path without depending on friction?

4. A pail attached to a rope of length 0.7m is whirled in a vertical circle. Calculate the
minimum speed such that the water in the pail will not spill out.

5. A 2100-kg demolition ball swings at the end of a 8-m cable on the arc of a vertical circle.
At the lowest point of the swing, the ball is moving at a speed of 6.8 ms-1. Determine the
tension in the cable.

6. How large must the coefficient of static friction be between the tires and the road if a car
is to round a level curve of radius 85 m at a speed of 92 km h-1?

7. Calculate the acceleration due to gravity on the Moon. The Moons radius is
1.74106m and its mass is 7.351022 kg

8. What is the distance from the Earths center to a point outside the Earth where the
gravitational acceleration due to the Earth is 110 of its value at the Earths surface?

9. Given that the acceleration of gravity at the surface of Mars is 0.38 of what it is on
Earth, and that Mars radius is 3400 km, determine the mass of Mars.

10. Calculate the speed of a satellite moving in a stable circular orbit about the Earth
at a height of 3600 km.

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CHAPTER 7

1. A centrifuge in a medical laboratory rotates at an angular speed of 3600 rev per min. When
switched off, it rotates through 50 revolutions before coming to rest. Find the constant
angular acceleration of the centrifuge.

2. A rotor initially rotating at an angular speed of 0.6 rad s-1 increases its speed with an
angular acceleration of 0.7 rad s-2. Find the angle through which the rotor rotates before
reaching a final speed of 2.2 rad s-1 .

3. A coin with a diameter of 2.40 cm is dropped on edge onto a horizontal surface. The coin
starts out with an initial angular speed of 18.0 rad s-1 and rolls in a straight line without
slipping. If the rotation slows with an angular acceleration of 1.90 rad s-2, how far does the
coin roll before coming to rest?

4. A pulley is rotating at 30 rps slows down uniformly to 20 rps in 2 s. Calculate the total
number of revolutions it makes to a complete stop.

5. A car moves at constant speed of 100 km hr -1 for 2 hours. Find the number of revolutions
that the wheel makes during this time if the diameter of the wheel is 0.4 m.

6. A rotating wheel requires 3.0 s to rotate 37.0 revolutions. Its angular velocity at the end of
the 3.0 s interval is 98.0 rad s-1. What is the constant angular acceleration of the wheel?

7. The blades in a blender rotate at a rate of 6500 rpm. When the motor is turned off during
operation, the blades slow to rest in 3.0 s. What is the angular acceleration as the blades
slow down?

8. A 70 cm diameter wheel accelerates uniformly about its center from 130 rpm to 280 rpm in
4.0 s. Determine (a) its angular acceleration, and (b) the radial and tangential components
of the linear acceleration of a point on the edge of the wheel 2.0 s after it has started
accelerating.

9. A centrifuge accelerates uniformly from rest to 15,000 rpm in 220 s. Through how
many revolutions did it turn in this time?

10. An automobile engine slows down from 4500 rpm to 1200 rpm in 2.5 s. Calculate
(a) its angular acceleration, assumed constant, and (b) the total number of
revolutions the engine makes in this time.

11. A fan rotating at 500 rpm slows down uniformly for 30.0 s. During this time it had
made 200 complete revolutions. What is its speed at the end of this time. What is
the extra time needed for the fan to completely stop.

12. A toy wheel is made to spin by pulling the end of a string wrapped around its body.
The radius of the wheel is 2.0 cm and the length of the string is 64.0 cm. If
someone pulls the string so as to give the wheel a uniform angular acceleration of
12 rad s-2, what will be the angular speed of the wheel when the string is fully
unwound?

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13. A car starts from rest accelerates uniformly to a speed of 15 ms-1 in 10 s. If the
wheel of the car is of radius 30 cm, find the angular acceleration of the wheel and
the number of revolutions the wheel had made during this time.

14. A pulley of radius 5.0 cm attched to a motor is used to raise a box. When the motor
is started, it accellerates uniformly to 20 rev s-1 in 2.0 s. Calculate how high has the
box been raised during this time.

CHAPTER 8

1. A uniform ladder 10.0 m long weighing 50.0 N rests against

a smooth vertical wall. The ladder strats to slip away when
its inclination angle is 50o with the floor. What is the
coefficint of static friction at the floor?

2. In FIGURE1, a uniform rod AB of length L is hinge to a wall B

70o
at A, supported by a cable attached B and pinned to the wall
at C. A load P is hung at a distance 3L/4 from the hinge. C
Calculate the tension of the cable and the reaction at point A, A50o
if mass of rod is 1.0 kg and mass of load is 3.0 kg. P
A
3. Find the total torque on an axle acted upon by forces shown
in FIGURE 2. (All forces are tangential to the circle).

4. A constant torque of 25.0 N m is applied to a grindstone

whose moment of inertia is 0.130 kg m2. Find the angular
speed after the grindstone has made 15 revolutions.

5. A 10 kg cylinder rolls without slipping on a rough surface.

At an instant when its center of gravity has a speed of 10 ms-
1
, determine its total kinetic energy.

6. A 150 kg merry-go-round in the shape of a solid, horizontal disk of radius 1.2 m is

set in motion by wrapping a rope about the rim of the disk and pulling on the rope.
What constant force must be exerted on the rope to bring the merry-go-round from
rest to an angular speed of 30 rpm in 2.0 s?

7. A uniform cylindrical grinding wheel of radius 18 cm and mass 2.8 kg is rotating at

1500 rpm. (a) What is the angular momentum of (b) How much torque is required
to stop it in 6.0 s?

8. A person stands, with his hands at his side, on a platform that is rotating at a rate of
1.30 rps. If he raises his arms to a horizontal position, the speed of rotation
decreases to 0.80 rps. By what factor has his moment of inertia changed?

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9. A ladder of length 1.5 m leans against a smooth vertical wall with its lower end on
a rough horizontal floor at 0.9 m from the wall. A man whose mass is 3 times that
of the ladder climbs the ladder. If the coeficient of friction on the floor is 0.3, how
far can a man climb the ladder before the ladder slips away?

10. FIGURE 3, shows a disc of mass 2.0 kg and radius 20 cm is

suspended to the ceiling by a long string wrapped around it.
When released from rest, the cylinder falls vertically. What is string
its linear speed when it is has travel 50 m below its initial
position.
Solid disc
11. A crate of weight 450 kg is being lift up a dual pulley system
as shown in FIGURE 4. The mechanism has a combined
Dual
moment of inertia of 50.0 kg m2, and the pulleys are of radii
pulley
0.60 cm and 0.20 cm. Two cables are wrapped to their
respective pulley and connected to a motor and the crate. The
tension of the cable connected to the motor is maintained at motor
2150 N. Find the angular acceleration of the pulley and the
tension of cable conneted to the crate. crate

12. A frictionless turntable is rotating at angular speed of 12

rpm. When a small mass of 50 g falls onto the disc at a
distance 10 cm from the axis of rotation, its speed reduces to
9 rpm. What is the moment of inertia of the turntable?

13. FIGURE 5, shows a string wound around a spindle which is

attached to a flywheel. Their combined moment of inertia is spindle
1.2 kg m2 and the radius of the spindle is 15 mm. The string
is pulled from rest with a constant force of 5.0 N. Calculate flywheel
the angular speed of the flywheel after 10 s. string

14. A ball released from rest, rolls on a

smooth curve track as in FIGURE 6. Smooth track
The ball leaves the track and projected
as a translational projectile at 50o with 2.0 m
H
the horizontal. Calculate the maximum 0.5 m
height H, and range R. [Given: Moment R

of inetia, I 52 mr 2 ]

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