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    Name _________________________ Potential and Kinetic Energy

    Homework
    Date __________________________

    Period _________________________

    PE = mgh KE = ½ mv2
    Circle your answer. Don’t forget to put the units!

    Potential Energy (due to gravity)

    1) A 2.4 kg toy falls from 2 m to 1 m. What is the change in Potential Energy?

    2) If (on earth) an object falls 18 m and loses 36 J of PE. What is the object’s mass?

    3) A 1 Kg object loses 20 J of GPE as it falls. How far does it fall?

    4) A small, 3 kg weight is moved from 5 m from the ground to 8 m. What is the change in potential
    energy?

    5) An 80 kg person falls 60 m off of a waterfall. What is her change in PE?

    6) A Potential Energy (PE) Sensor attached to a 12 Kg ball changes from 12 J to 22 J, by height


    change alone. What is the change in height?

    7) A man rides up in an elevator 12 m. He gains 6500 J of potential energy due to gravity. What is
    the man’s mass?
    8) When a 5 kg rock is dropped from a height of 6 m on Planet X, it loses 24 J of GPE. What is the
    acceleration due to gravity on Planet X?

    9) What is the gravitational potential energy of a 450 Kg car at the top of a 25 m parking garage?

    10) What is the change in gravitational potential energy of a 45 kg weight that is moved from 2 m to
    18 m on earth? What is it on the moon (g = 1.6 m/s2)?

    11) A 0.25 kg book falls off a 2 m shelf on to a 0.5 m chair. What was the change in GPE?

    12) A 60 kg girl falls off of a waterfall and looses 10 kJ of GPE. What was her height?

    13) When a 0.5 kg rock is dropped from a height of 12 m on Planet Z, it loses 45 J of GPE. What is
    the acceleration due to gravity on Planet Z?

    Kinetic Energy

    14) How much kinetic energy does an 80 kg man have while running at 1.5 m/s?

    15) A bird flies at a speed of 2.3 m/s if it has 14 J of kinetic energy, what is its mass?

    16) A child does 12 J of work pushing his 3 kg toy truck. With what velocity does the toy move after
    the child is done pushing?

    17) A 6 kg object has a speed of 24 m/s. What is its kinetic energy?


    18) A rock hits the ground with a speed of 7 m/s and a kinetic energy of 100 J. What is the rock’s
    mass?

    19) A bullet is fired into a 12 kg block of wood. After the bullet stops in the block of wood the block
    has 29 J of kinetic energy. At what speed is the block moving?

    20) How much kinetic energy does a 4 Kg cat have while running at 9 m/s?

    21) What is the mass of an object moving with a speed of 4 m/s and a kinetic energy of 2000 J?

    22) A 400 Kg car has 1.8 x 105 J of kinetic energy. How fast is it moving?

    23) How fast is a 3 Kg toy car with 20 J of kinetic energy moving?

    24) A student runs to physics class with a speed of 6 m/s. If the student has 880 J of kinetic energy,
    what is her mass?

    25) What is the speed of a 1200 kg car moving with a kinetic energy of 15 kJ?
    ANSWERS

    1) 23.52 J
    2) 0.20 kg
    3) 2.04 m
    4) 88.2 J
    5) 47040 J
    6) 0.085 m
    7) 55.3 kg
    2
    8) 0.8 m/s
    9) 110250 J
    10) 7056 JEarth
    1152 JMoon

    11) 3.675 J
    12) 17 m
    2
    13) 7.5 m/s

    14) 90 J
    15) 5.29 kg
    16) 2.83 m/s
    17) 1728 J
    18) 4.08 kg
    19) 2.20 m/s
    20) 162 J
    21) 250 kg
    22) 30.4 m/s
    23) 3.65 m/s
    24) 48.9 kg
    25) 5 m/s

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