Unit 3 Part 1 Review (3.1 To 3.4)

Unit 3 Part 1 Review (Work, Energy, Power, Efficiency)
1) Apply the work equation to determine the amount of work done by the applied force in each of
the situations described below.
a) A 100 N force is applied b) A 100. N force is applied c) An upward force is applied to

to move a 15.0 kg object a at an angle of 30.0° to the lift a 15 kg object to a height of
horizontal distance of 5.0 horizontal to move a 15 kg 5.0 m at constant speed. [ans:
meters at constant speed. object at a constant speed 740 J]
[ans: 500 J] for a horizontal distance of
5.0 m. [ans: 430 J]
2) A student with a mass of 56.0 kg runs up three flights of stairs in 12.0 seconds. The student has
gone a vertical distance of 8.0 m. Determine the amount of work done by the student to elevate her
body to this height. [ans: 4400 J]
3) Kaho carries a 20.5 kg suitcase up three flights of stairs (a height of 10.0 m) and then pushes it
with a horizontal force of 50.0 N at a constant speed of 0.5 m/s for a horizontal distance of 35.0 m.
How much work does Kaho do on his suitcase during this entire motion? [ans: 3760 J]
4) What is the meaning of positive work? Of negative work?
5) A 68 kg in-line skater starts from rest and accelerates up to a speed of 2.5 m/s in 15 m.
a) Find her final total kinetic energy after the 15 m of travel. [ans: 210 J]
b) After 15 m, she exerts a braking frictional force of 280 N. What is her stopping distance? [ans:
0.76 m]
6) A 2.0 g bullet initially moving with a velocity of 87 m/s [E] passes through a block of wood. On
exiting the wood, the bullet’s velocity was 12 m/s [E].
a) How much work did the force of friction do on the bullet as it passed through the wood? [ans:
7.4 J]
b) If the wood block was 4.0 cm thick, what was the average force that the wood exerted on the
bullet? [ans: 190 N [back]]
7) Charlie, a 75 kg passenger in a van, is wearing a seat belt when the van moving at 15 m/s collides
with a concrete wall. The front end of the van collapses 0.50 m in coming to rest.
a) What was Charlie’s kinetic energy before the crash? [ans: 8400 J]
b) What average force did the seat belt exert on Charlie during the crash? [ans: 17000 N [back]]
8) A child on a sled (total mass of 47.5 kg) is at the top of a small hill, which has a height of 8.40 m.
There is another, even smaller hill, a short distance beyond the first hill, which has a height of 3.87
m. Assuming that the snow is a frictionless surface, with what speed will the child read the top of the
second hill if:
a) The child starts down the first hill from rest? [ans: 9.42 m/s]
b) The child starts down the first hill with a speed of 12 km/h? [ans: 10.0 m/s]
c) What if the child’s mass was 37.5 kg instead, would your answers in part a and b change? Why?
9) A frictionless ramp is inclined at an angle of 35°. A 540 g rock starts down the ramp from the top,
with a kinetic energy of 5.3 J. The rock reaches the bottom of the ramp with 21.5 J of kinetic energy.
What is the length along the incline of the ramp? [ans: 5.3 m]
10) The first loop on a roller coaster has a radius of 15.4 m. This loop is at the bottom of the first hill.
At the top of this loop, the roller coaster has a speed of 15.6 km/h. A roller coaster cart on the track
has a mass of 653 kg. Assuming that the track was frictionless,
a) What was the roller coaster’s speed at the bottom of the loop? [ans: 25.0 m/s]
b) Assuming that the roller coaster barely made it to the top of the first hill, before going
down the other side, what was the height of the first hill? [ans: 31.8 m]
11) A 60 kg student does 60 push-ups in 40 seconds. With each push-up, the student must lift an
average of 70% of the body mass a height of 40 cm off the floor. Assuming two significant digits,
calculate the following:
a) the work the student does against the force of gravity for each push-up [ans: 160 J]
b) the total work done against the force of gravity in 40 seconds [ans: 9900 J]
c) the power achieved for this period [ans: 250 W]
12) A water pump rated at 2.0 kW can raise 55 kg of water per minute at a constant speed from a
lake to the top of a storage tank. How high is the tank above the lake? Assume that all the energy
from the pump goes into raising the height of the water. [ans: 220 m]
13) How many minutes would it take a hair dryer rated at 1.5 × 103 W to use 5.0 MJ of energy? (note that 1 MJ = 1 × 106 J) [ans: 56 minutes]
14) A machine requires 580 J of energy to do 110 J of useful work. How efficient is the machine?
[ans: 19%]

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a) A 100 N force is applied b) A 100. N force is applied c) An upward force is applied to

4) What is the meaning of positive work? Of negative work?

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