For each of the multiple choice questions below, choose the best answer.

Unless otherwise noted, use g = 10 m/s2 and neglect air resistance.

1. Which of the following is NOT true of work?
(A) It is the scalar product of force and displacement.
(B) It is measured in joules.
(C) It has the same units as energy.
(D) It is a vector which is always in the same direction as the displacement.
(E) It takes energy to perform work

2. A 4-kg box is pushed across a level floor with a force of 60 N for a displacement of 20
m, then lifted to a height of 2 m. What is the total work done on the box?
(A) 200 J
(B) 400 J
(C) 1120 J
(D) 1200 J
(E) 1280 J

3. A 20-kg cart is pushed up the inclined plane shown by a force F to a height of

3 m. What is the potential energy of the cart when it reaches the top of the inclined plane?
(A) 1500 J
(B) 630 J
(C) 600 J F
(D) 300 J
(E) 150 J 3m

4. A ball falls from a height h from a tower. Which of the following statements is true?
(A) The potential energy of the ball is conserved as it falls.
(B) The kinetic energy of the ball is conserved as it falls.
(C) The difference between the potential energy and kinetic energy is a constant as the
ball falls.
(D) The sum of the kinetic and potential energies of the ball is a constant.
(E) The velocity of the ball is constant as the ball falls.

5. A 0.5-kg ball is dropped from a third story window which is 20 m above the sidewalk.
What is the speed of the ball just before it strikes the sidewalk?
(A) 5 m/s
(B) 10 m/s
(C) 14 m/s
(D) 20 m/s
(E) 200 m/s

6. Drew lifts a 60-kg crate onto a truck bed 1 meter high in 3 seconds. Connor lifts sixty
1-kg boxes onto the same truck in a time of 2 minutes. Which of the following statements
is true?
(A) Drew does more work than Connor does.
(B) Connor does more work than Drew does.
(C) They do the same amount of work, but Drew operates at a higher power level.
(D) They do the same amount of work, but Connor operates at a higher power level.
(E) Drew and Connor do the same amount of work and operate at the same power level.

7. A crane can lift a 500 kg mass to height of 30 m in 2 minutes. The power at which the
crane is operating is
(A) 125 Watts
(B) 1250 Watts
(C) 7500 Watts
(D) 250 000 Watts
(E) 500 000 Watts

Part I Multiple Choice

Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five

suggested answers or completions.

1. Which of the following 10 N forces acting over 10 m would produce the most work?
30 degrees 45 degrees

A B _____________________________

45 degrees Horizontal

C D

Vertical

2. How much work would this 10 N force acting over 10 m do on a 10 kg object?

a) 0 J b) 70.7 J c) 100 J d) 980 J e)1000 J

3. What would is the velocity of the 10 kg object after the 10 N force acts over a
distance of 10 m?
a) 3.2 m/s b) 4.5 m/s c) 5.0 m/s d) 10 m/s e) 100 m/s

4. Students A and B run up the same flight of stairs.

 Both students run up the stairs at constant velocties.
 Student A takes twice as long as student B to climb the stairs.
 Student A weighs twice as much as student B
I. Student A develops more power than student B.

II. Student B does more work than student A.

III. The change in potential energy of student A is twice that of student B.

a. I only b. III only c. I and II only d. I and III only e. I, II, and III

5. The gravitational potential energy of the students is dependent

a) on the velocities of the students
b) on how steep the stairs are
c) the total horizontal displacement
d) the length of their stride
e) the total vertical displacement.
6. When an object is dropped from a given height, h, which of the following is true of

the values of its kinetic and potential energies at 1/2 h.

 Kinetic Potential

a. Zero Maximum

b. Zero Zero

c. 1/2 maximum 1/2 maximum

d. Maximum 1/2 maximum

e. Maximum Zero

7. A student weighing 700 N climbs at a constant speed to the top of an 8 m vertical rope in
10s. The average power expended by the student to overcome gravity is most nearly
A. 1.1 W B. 87.5 W C. 560 W D. 875 W E. 5600W

8. A child pushes horizontally on a box of mass m which moves with constant speed v across a
horizontal floor. The coefficient of friction between the box and the floor is u. At what rate
does the child do work on the box?

a) mgv b) mgv c) v/ mg d) mg/v e) mv2

9. A ball is thrown horizontally from a cliff with a velocity of vo from a height h. Which of the
following can be used to Calculate the kinetic energy of the ball just before it hits the ground.
K.E = …..

a) mgy b) 1/2 mvo2 c) 1/2 mvo2-mgyo d) mgh – 1/2mvo2 e) 1/2mvo2+mgyo

10. Which of the following are units of work.

I) kg m/s2 II) N m III) Joule IV. kg m2/s3

a) I and III only

b) II only
c) II and III only
d) II, III and IV
e) I, II, and III

11. Two masses, m and 2m moving with velocities 2v and v respectively are each brought

to rest by external forces. Which of the following statements is correct.

a) The same amount of work is done on both masses.

b) Twice as much work is done on the larger mass.
c) Twice as much work is done on the smaller mass.
d) The change in kinetic energy of both masses is the same.
e) The change in kinetic energy is four times greater for the larger mass.

12. Which of the following is not a measure of the same quantity as the others?
a) Newton meter per second
b) kilogram meter squared per second squared
c) joule per second
d) watt
e) they all measure the same quantity