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ANSWERS Worksheet Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem

This document provides a worksheet on kinetic energy and the work-energy theorem with 10 problems. It covers concepts like the formula for kinetic energy, how kinetic energy changes with mass and velocity, calculating work done by gravity, using the work-energy theorem to relate work, force and changes in kinetic energy, and kinematics questions related to velocity and acceleration.

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ANSWERS Worksheet Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem

This document provides a worksheet on kinetic energy and the work-energy theorem with 10 problems. It covers concepts like the formula for kinetic energy, how kinetic energy changes with mass and velocity, calculating work done by gravity, using the work-energy theorem to relate work, force and changes in kinetic energy, and kinematics questions related to velocity and acceleration.

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Worksheet: Kinetic Energy & Work-Energy Theorem

KINETIC ENERGY
1. What is the formula for the kinetic energy of an object? Is KE a vector or a scalar? What are the units for KE?

2. A car has 20000 J of KE. How much kinetic energy would it need to gain to be going twice as fast?
A) 40,000 J B) 20,000 J C) 60,000 J D) 80,000 J

3. An elevator moves from the 5​th​ floor to the 15​th​ floor at a constant velocity. By what factor does it KE change?

4. If you triple the mass of an object and halve the velocity of an object, by what factor does the KE change?

5. What is the work done by gravity if an 800 kg elevator is lifted from a height of 25 meters up to a height of 75
meters?

6. A 75-kg skateboarder starts at the top of a slope that is at an angle of 25°. If the length of the diagonal part of the
hill was 34 meters, what was the work done by gravity as they go from the top of the hill to the bottom of the hill.

WORK-ENERGY THEOREM
7. A 340-kg motorcycle accelerates from rest to 25 m/s.
a. What was the change in the kinetic energy of the motorcycle?

b. What was the net work done on the motorcycle? Be sure to indicate if it was positive or negative.

c. The motorcycle makes this change over a distance of 100 meters. What was the net force acting on the
motorcycle?

d. What was the acceleration of the motorcycle.

e. So far, none of the questions so far have required the use of kinematics. Velocity, force and distance are all related
now by net work and kinetice energy. Time cannot be found however by using these principles. Use kinematics to
find how long it took the motorcycle to travel the 100 meters.

8. A 0.68 kg rock is dropped from the top of a 45 meter tall tower.


a. Draw a free-body diagram for the rock on the way down.

b. What is the work done by gravity on the rock while it is on the way down?
c. What is the change in the kinetic energy of the rock on the way down?

d. What is the speed of the rock just before hitting the ground?
9. A cannon fires an 8-kg shell straight upwards at 35 m/s.
a. Use the graph below to show the velocity of the shell at 1 second intervals from launch to landing for the shell.

b. Use the graph below to represent the kinetic energy of the shell at 1 second intervals from launch to landing.

c. What is the net work done on the shell from the time it leaves the cannon until the time it reaches its peak?

d. What is the net work done on the shell from launch to landing?

10. a. What net work is required to decelerate a car of 400 kg from 20 m/s to rest?
b. What net work is required to decelerate a car of 400 kg from 40 m/s to rest?

c. The force of friction does not depend on the speed of the car, thus the braking force in each of the cases above is
the same. If the force is the same, how does the braking distance in the second case compare to the braking distance
in the first case?

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