This document provides an overview of chapter 10 from a physics textbook on energy and work. It includes slides about forms of energy like kinetic, potential, and thermal energy. It discusses energy transformations between these forms and how work is the transfer of energy through force applied over a distance. The document previews the key topics in the chapter, provides example problems calculating work done by forces, and discusses how work depends on both the force and its orientation relative to the displacement. It emphasizes the law of conservation of energy, that the total energy in an isolated system remains constant.
11. Slide 10-11
The Basic Energy Model
Every system in nature has a quantity we call its total
energy E.
12. Slide 10-12
Forms of Energy
Some important forms of energy are
• Kinetic energy K: energy of motion.
• Gravitational potential energy Ug: stored energy associated
with an object’s height above the ground.
• Elastic or spring potential energy Us: energy stored when a
spring or other elastic object is stretched.
• Thermal energy Eth: the sum of the kinetic and potential
energies of all the molecules in an object.
• Chemical energy Echem: energy stored in the bonds between
molecules.
• Nuclear energy Enuclear: energy stored in the mass of the
nucleus of an atom.
15. Slide 10-15
QuickCheck 10.1
A child is on a playground swing, motionless at the highest
point of his arc. What energy transformation takes place as
he swings back down to the lowest point of his motion?
A. K Ug
B. Ug K
C. Eth K
D. Ug Eth
E. K Eth
17. Slide 10-17
QuickCheck 10.2
A skier is gliding down a gentle slope at a constant speed.
What energy transformation is taking place?
A. K Ug
B. Ug K
C. Eth K
D. Ug Eth
E. K Eth
19. Slide 10-19
Energy Transfers and Work
• Energy can be transferred between a system and its
environment through work and heat.
• Work is the mechanical
transfer of energy to or from
a system by pushing or
pulling on it.
• Heat is the nonmechanical
transfer of energy between
a system and the
environment due to a
temperature difference
between the two.
21. Slide 10-21
QuickCheck 10.3
A tow rope pulls a skier up the slope at constant speed.
What energy transfer (or transfers) is taking place?
A. W Ug
B. W K
C. W Eth
D. Both A and B.
E. Both A and C.
24. Slide 10-24
QuickCheck 10.4
A crane lowers a girder into place at constant speed.
Consider the work Wg done by gravity and the work WT
done by the tension in the cable. Which is true?
A. Wg > 0 and WT > 0
B. Wg > 0 and WT < 0
C. Wg < 0 and WT > 0
D. Wg < 0 and WT < 0
E. Wg = 0 and WT = 0
26. Slide 10-26
QuickCheck 10.5
Robert pushes the box to the left at constant speed. In doing
so, Robert does ______ work on the box.
A. positive
B. negative
C. zero
32. Slide 10-32
Example 10.1 Work done in pushing a crate
Sarah pushes a heavy crate 3.0 m along the floor at a
constant speed. She pushes with a constant horizontal force
of magnitude 70 N. How much work does Sarah do on the
crate?
38. Slide 10-38
A constant force pushes a particle through a displacement
. In which of these three cases does the force do negative
work?
D. Both A and B.
E. Both A and C.
QuickCheck 10.6
40. Slide 10-40
sin60 = 0.87
cos60 = 0.50
QuickCheck 10.7
Which force below does the most work? All three
displacements are the same.
A. The 10 N force.
B. The 8 N force
C. The 6 N force.
D. They all do the same work.
42. Slide 10-42
Example 10.2 Work done in pulling a suitcase
A strap inclined upward at a 45° angle pulls a suitcase
through the airport. The tension in the strap is 20 N. How
much work does the tension do if the suitcase is pulled
100 m at a constant speed?
44. Slide 10-44
Forces That Do No Work
A force does no work on an object if
• The object undergoes no displacement.
• The force is
perpendicular to the
displacement.
• The part of the object
on which the force acts
undergoes no
displacement (even if
other parts of the object
do move).
Text: p. 291
48. Slide 10-48
Example 10.5 Speed of a bobsled after pushing
A two-man bobsled has a mass of 390 kg. Starting from rest,
the two racers push the sled for the first 50 m with a net
force of 270 N. Neglecting friction, what is the sled’s speed
at the end of the 50 m?
51. Slide 10-51
QuickCheck 10.10
A light plastic cart and a heavy
steel cart are both pushed with
the same force for a distance
of 1.0 m, starting from rest.
After the force is removed,
the kinetic energy of the light
plastic cart is ________ that
of the heavy steel cart.
A. greater than
B. equal to
C. less than
D. Can’t say. It depends on how big the force is.
53. Slide 10-53
QuickCheck 10.11
Each of the boxes shown is pulled for 10 m across a level,
frictionless floor by the force given. Which box experiences
the greatest change in its kinetic energy?
55. Slide 10-55
QuickCheck 10.12
Each of the 1.0 kg boxes starts at rest and is then is pulled
for 2.0 m across a level, frictionless floor by a rope with the
noted force at the noted angle. Which box has the highest
final speed?
61. Slide 10-61
QuickCheck 10.13
Rank in order, from largest to smallest, the gravitational
potential energies of the balls.
A. 1 > 2 = 4 > 3
B. 1 > 2 > 3 > 4
C. 3 > 2 > 4 > 1
D. 3 > 2 = 4 > 1
63. Slide 10-63
QuickCheck 10.14
Starting from rest, a marble first rolls down a steeper hill,
then down a less steep hill of the same height. For which is
it going faster at the bottom?
A. Faster at the bottom of the steeper hill.
B. Faster at the bottom of the less steep hill.
C. Same speed at the bottom of both hills.
D. Can’t say without knowing the mass of the marble.
65. Slide 10-65
QuickCheck 10.15
A small child slides down the four frictionless slides A–D.
Rank in order, from largest to smallest, her speeds at the
bottom.
A. vD > vA > vB > vC
B. vD > vA = vB > vC
C. vC > vA > vB > vD
D. vA = vB = vC = vD
70. Slide 10-70
QuickCheck 10.16
Three balls are thrown from a cliff with the same speed but
at different angles. Which ball has the greatest speed just
before it hits the ground?
A. Ball A.
B. Ball B.
C. Ball C.
D. All balls have the same speed.
71. Slide 10-71
QuickCheck 10.17
A hockey puck sliding on smooth ice at 4 m/s comes to a
1-m-high hill. Will it make it to the top of the hill?
A. Yes.
B. No.
C. Can’t answer without knowing the mass of the puck.
D. Can’t say without knowing the angle of the hill.
73. Slide 10-73
Example 10.8 Pulling back on a bow
An archer pulls back the string on her bow to a distance of
70 cm from its equilibrium position. To hold the string at
this position takes a force of 140 N. How much elastic
potential energy is stored in the bow?
79. Slide 10-79
Example 10.9 Creating thermal energy by
rubbing
A 0.30 kg block of wood is rubbed back and forth against a
wood table 30 times in each direction. The block is moved 8.0
cm during each stroke and pressed against the table with a force
of 22 N. How much thermal energy is created in this process?
87. Slide 10-87
QuickCheck 10.18
A spring-loaded gun shoots a plastic ball with a launch
speed of 2.0 m/s. If the spring is compressed twice as far,
the ball’s launch speed will be
A. 1.0 m/s
B. 2.0 m/s
C. 2.8 m/s
D. 4.0 m/s
E. 16.0 m/s
88. Slide 10-88
QuickCheck 10.18
A spring-loaded gun shoots a plastic ball with a launch
speed of 2.0 m/s. If the spring is compressed twice as far,
the ball’s launch speed will be
A. 1.0 m/s
B. 2.0 m/s
C. 2.8 m/s
D. 4.0 m/s
E. 16.0 m/s
Conservation of energy:
Double x double v
89. Slide 10-89
QuickCheck 10.19
A spring-loaded gun shoots a plastic ball with a launch
speed of 2.0 m/s. If the spring is replaced with a new spring
having twice the spring constant (but still compressed the
same distance), the ball’s launch speed will be
A. 1.0 m/s
B. 2.0 m/s
C. 2.8 m/s
D. 4.0 m/s
E. 16.0 m/s
90. Slide 10-90
QuickCheck 10.19
A spring-loaded gun shoots a plastic ball with a launch
speed of 2.0 m/s. If the spring is replaced with a new spring
having twice the spring constant (but still compressed the
same distance), the ball’s launch speed will be
A. 1.0 m/s
B. 2.0 m/s
C. 2.8 m/s
D. 4.0 m/s
E. 16.0 m/s
Conservation of energy:
Double k increase
v by square root of 2
91. Slide 10-91
Example Problem
A car sits at rest at the top of a hill. A small push sends it
rolling down the hill. After its height has dropped by 5.0 m,
it is moving at a good clip. Write down the equation for
conservation of energy, noting the choice of system, the
initial and final states, and what energy transformation has
taken place.
92. Slide 10-92
Example Problem
A child slides down a slide at a constant speed of 1.5 m/s.
The height of the slide is 3.0 m. Write down the equation for
conservation of energy, noting the choice of system, the
initial and final states, and what energy transformation has
taken place.
93. Slide 10-93
Example 10.11 Speed at the bottom of a water
slide
While at the county fair, Katie tries the water slide, whose shape
is shown in the figure. The starting point is 9.0 m above the
ground. She pushes off with an initial speed of 2.0 m/s. If the
slide is frictionless, how fast will Katie be traveling at the
bottom?
97. Slide 10-97
Example 10.13 Pulling a bike trailer
Monica pulls her daughter Jessie in a bike trailer. The trailer
and Jessie together have a mass of 25 kg. Monica starts up a
100-m-long slope that’s 4.0 m high. On the slope, Monica’s
bike pulls on the trailer with a constant force of 8.0 N. They
start out at the bottom of the slope with a speed of 5.3 m/s.
What is their speed at the top of the slope?
105. Slide 10-105
Example 10.15 Energy transformations in a
perfectly inelastic collision
The figure shows two train cars that move toward each other,
collide, and couple together. In Example 9.8, we used
conservation of momentum to find the final velocity shown in
the figure from the given initial velocities. How much thermal
energy is created in this collision?
110. Slide 10-110
Example 10.16 Velocities in an air hockey
collision
On an air hockey table, a moving puck, traveling to the right
at 2.3 m/s, makes a head-on collision with an identical puck
at rest. What is the final velocity of each puck?
114. Slide 10-114
A bike helmet—basically a shell of hard, crushable foam—is tested by
being strapped onto a 5.0 kg headform and dropped from a height of
2.0 m onto a hard anvil. What force is encountered by the headform if
the impact crushes the foam by 3.0 cm?
Example 10.17 Protecting your head
125. Slide 10-125
QuickCheck 10.21
Four toy cars accelerate from rest to their top speed in a
certain amount of time. The masses of the cars, the final
speeds, and the time to reach this speed are noted in the
table. Which car has the greatest power?
127. Slide 10-127
Example 10.18 Power to pass a truck
Your 1500 kg car is behind a truck traveling at 60 mph (27
m/s). To pass the truck, you speed up to 75 mph (34 m/s) in
6.0 s. What engine power is required to do this?
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Answer: The system is the car. The “small push” indicates that its initial kinetic energy can be considered to be zero. We also neglect any work done by non-conservative forces. Thus, gravitational potential energy is converted into kinetic energy. For convenience we choose the bottom of the hill to be the reference point for gravitational potential energy (the bottom of the hill is at y = 0). The expression for conservation of energy for this system is thus:
Kf + (Ug)f = Ki + (Ug)i.
Ki = 0
(Ug)f = 0
So the final kinetic energy, Kf, is equal to the initial gravitational potential energy, (Ug)i.
Since both quantities are proportional to mass, we have 𝑣= 𝑔 ℎ 𝑖 = 9.8 ×5 = 7 m/s.
Answer: The system is the child. Because the movement is at a constant speed, work is done on the child by the slide. The expression for conservation of energy for this system is thus:
Kf + (Ug)f + Eth = Ki + (Ug)i.
Because the speed is constant, the kinetic energy is constant and the initial gravitational energy is converted into thermal energy.