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Dynamics Worksheet 4 - Work, Energy & Power

This document contains examples of physics problems involving work, energy and power. It includes calculating kinetic energy, potential energy, work, power and acceleration for various objects and vehicles in motion or undergoing a change in motion.

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Dynamics Worksheet 4 - Work, Energy & Power

This document contains examples of physics problems involving work, energy and power. It includes calculating kinetic energy, potential energy, work, power and acceleration for various objects and vehicles in motion or undergoing a change in motion.

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Dynamics Worksheet 4 – Work, Energy & Power

1. A car is travelling at 27 m/s north and has a mass of 1500 kg. Calculate the kinetic
energy of the car. (5.47 x 105 J)

2. A 1.1 kg brick is lifted from the ground to a height of 3.5 m. Determine the change in
potential energy of the brick. Use the acceleration due to gravity as 9.8 ms-2. (37.7 J)

3. Determine the kinetic energy of a 300 kg space probe launched from the surface of Mars,
once it has reached escape velocity of 5.1 km/s. (3.90 x 109 J)

4. An army tank of 2.5 x 104 kg mass has a kinetic energy of 1.25 x 106 J. Calculate the
speed of the tank. (10ms-1)

5. An electric radiator supplies 7.56 x 106 J of energy in a time of 1.0 hour. Determine the
power of the radiator. (2.1 x 103 W)

6. A large truck travelling east collides and coalesces with a car travelling west. Both
vehicles are traveling at 25 ms-1. Describe the energy transformations that may occur
during such a collision. (See below question 9 for a sample answer.)

7. A girl throws a 0.06 kg ball vertically upwards with a kinetic energy of 18.75 J. The ball
leaves her hand at a height of 1.20 m above the ground. Assume the acceleration due to
gravity is 9.8 ms-2. Determine:
a. The total height reached by the ball above the ground. (33.1 m)
b. The gain in potential energy experienced by the ball from its launch position
to the top of its trajectory. (18.75 J)

8. Determine the amount of work that must be done by the engine of a 500 kg racing car to
change the velocity of the car from 55 ms-1 east to 60 ms-1 east. If this change in velocity
was accomplished in 0.3 s, calculate the acceleration of the car. Find the net force applied
by the engine to cause this acceleration. (143750 J, 16.67 ms-2, 8335 N)

9. A car accelerates uniformly from rest to a speed of 23.0 ms-1. If the net force applied by
the engine is 5,060 N, determine the power supplied by the engine. (5.82 x 104 W.)

Sample answer to question 6: The kinetic energy of the truck and the car will most probably
be transformed into several different forms of energy. Heat (friction), sound and light
(sparks) will be produced. Metal and other materials will be deformed (twisted, stretched &
compacted). Energy can be stored by such processes – usually referred to as elastic energy –
it is a form of potential energy. Some translational kinetic energy (the KE of an object
moving along a straight-line path) will be transformed into vibrational KE as the two vehicles
collide. If either vehicle rolls then translational KE will be transformed into rotational KE. If
the fuel carried by either vehicle explodes, the chemical potential energy stored in the fuel
will be transformed into heat, light, sound and kinetic energy (if it blows parts of the vehicles
apart).

Physics Course 2018M2WS4


© Mr Robert Emery 2017

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