Physics chapter 6
A car traveling at a velocity v can stop in a minimum distance d. What would be the car's minimum stopping distance if it were traveling at a velocity of 2v?
4d
A heavy dart and a light dart are launched vertically by identical ideal springs. Both springs were initially compressed by the same amount. There is no significant air resistance. Which of the following statements about these darts is correct?
At the maximum height, both darts have the same gravitational potential energy.
Two identical grasshoppers jump into the air with the same initial speed and experience no air resistance. Grasshopper A goes straight up, but grasshopper B goes up at a 66° angle above the horizontal. Which of the following statements about these grasshoppers is incorrect?
At their highest point, both of them have the same amount of gravitational potential energy.
Person X pushes twice as hard against a stationary brick wall as person Y. Which one of the following statements is correct?
Both do zero work.
Two balls are thrown off a building with the same speed, one straight up and one at a 45° angle. Which statement is true if air resistance can be ignored?
Both hit the ground with the same speed.
You and your friend, who weighs the same as you, want to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Your friend takes the elevator straight up. You decide to walk up the spiral stairway, taking longer to do so. Compare the gravitational potential energy of you and your friend, after you both reach the top.
Both of you have the same amount of gravitational potential energy at the top.
A heavy rock and a light rock are dropped from the same height and experience no significant air resistance as they fall. Which of the following statements about these rocks is correct?
Both rocks have the same speed when they reach the ground.
A heavy sled and a light sled, both moving horizontally with the same kinetic energy, suddenly slide onto a rough patch of snow and eventually come to a stop. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the sleds and the rough snow is the same for both of them. Which of the following statements about these sleds is incorrect?
Both sleds will slide the same distance on the rough snow before stopping.
A heavy sled and a light sled, both moving horizontally with the same speed, suddenly slide onto a rough patch of snow and eventually come to a stop. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the sleds and the rough snow is the same for both of them. Which of the following statements about these sleds is correct?
Both sleds will slide the same distance on the rough snow before stopping.
Three cars (car L, car M, and car N) are moving with the same speed and slam on their brakes. The most massive car is car L, and the least massive is car N. If the tires of all three cars have identical coefficients of kinetic friction with the road surface, for which car is the amount of work done by friction in stopping it the greatest?
Car L
If a stone is dropped with an initial gravitational potential energy of 100 J but reaches the ground with a kinetic energy of only 75 J, this is a violation of the principle of conservation of energy.
False
You slam on the brakes of your car in a panic, and skid a certain distance on a straight level road. If you had been traveling twice as fast, what distance would the car have skidded, under the same conditions?
It would have skidded 4 times farther.
A truck has four times the mass of a car and is moving with twice the speed of the car. If KET and KEC refer to the kinetic energies of truck and car respectively, it is correct to say that
KET = 16KEC.
Two men, Joel and Jerry, push against a car that has stalled, trying unsuccessfully to get it moving. Jerry stops after 10.0 min, while Joel is able to push for 5.0 min longer. Compare the work they do on the car.
Neither of them does any work
A bowling ball is dropped from a height h onto the center of a trampoline, which launches the ball back up into the air. How high will the ball rise?
No more than h--probably a little less.
A satellite in circular orbit around the Earth moves at constant speed. This orbit is maintained by the force of gravity between the Earth and the satellite, yet no work is done on the satellite. How is this possible?
No work is done if the direction of motion is perpendicular to the force.
Which one has larger kinetic energy: a 500-kg object moving at 40 m/s or a 1000-kg object moving at 20 m/s?
The 500-kg object
A ball is thrown straight up. At what point does the ball have the most energy? Ignore air resistance.
The energy of the ball is the same at all points.
You push a heavy crate down a ramp at a constant velocity. Only four forces act on the crate. Which force does the greatest magnitude of work on the crate?
The force of friction.
A ball is thrown straight up. Neglecting air resistance, which statement is not true regarding the energy of the ball?
The potential energy decreases while the ball is going up.
Engines, including car engines, are rated in horsepower. What is horsepower?
The rate at which the engine can do work.
A heavy stone and a light stone are released from rest in such away that they both have the same amount of gravitational potential energy just as they are released. Air resistance is negligibly small. Which of the following statements about these stones is incorrect?
The stones must have been released from the same height.
If the force on an object is in the negative direction, the work it does on the object must be
The work could be either positive or negative, depending on the direction the object moves.
You throw a baseball straight up. Compare the sign of the work done by gravity while the ball goes up with the sign of the work done by gravity while it goes down.
The work is negative on the way up and positive on the way down.
A person stands on the edge of a cliff. She throws three identical rocks with the same speed. Rock X is thrown vertically upward, rock Y is thrown horizontally, and rock Z is thrown vertically downward. If the ground at the base of the cliff is level, which rock hits the ground with the greatest speed if there is no air resistance?
They all hit the ground with the same speed.
Three cars (car F, car G, and car H) are moving with the same speed and slam on their brakes. The most massive car is car F, and the least massive is car H. If the tires of all three cars have identical coefficients of kinetic friction with the road surface, which car travels the longest distance to skid to a stop?
They all travel the same distance in stopping.
Joe and Bill throw identical balls vertically upward. Joe throws his ball with an initial speed twice as high as Bill. If there is no air resistance, the maximum height of Joe's ball will be ______________________ that of Bill's.
four times
Jill does twice as much work as Jack does and in half the time. Jill's power output is
four times Jack's power output.
A stone is held at a height h above the ground. A second stone with four times the mass of the first one is held at the same height. The gravitational potential energy of the second stone compared to that of the first stone is
four times as much.
A man pushes a block up an incline at a constant speed. As the block moves up the incline,
its potential energy increases and its kinetic energy remains the same.
You push very hard on a heavy desk, trying to move it. You do work on the desk:
only if it starts moving.
If the units of your answer are kg⋅m2/s3, which of the following types of quantities could your answer be? (There could be more than one correct choice.)
power
When you throw a pebble straight up with initial speed V, it reaches a maximum height H with no air resistance. At what speed should you throw it up vertically so it will go twice as high?
square root 2V
Two objects, one of mass m and the other of mass 2m, are dropped from the top of a building. If there is no air resistance, when they hit the ground
the heavier one will have twice the kinetic energy of the lighter one.
A 35-N bucket of water is lifted vertically 3.0 m and then returned to its original position. How much work did gravity do on the bucket during this process?
0 J
A force produces power P by doing work W in a time T. What power will be produced by a force that does six times as much work in half as much time?
12P
When you drop a pebble from height H, it reaches the ground with kinetic energy KE if there is no air resistance. From what height should you drop it so it will reach the ground with twice as much kinetic energy?
2H
A car accelerates from rest to 30 km/h. Later, on a highway it accelerates from 30 km/h to 60 km/h. Which takes more energy, going from 0 to 30, or from 30 to 60?
30 to 60 km/h.
When the speed of your car is doubled, by what factor does its kinetic energy increase?
4
When you drop a pebble from height H, it reaches the ground with speed V if there is no air resistance. From what height should you drop it so it will reach the ground with twice speed?
4H
Which requires more work, increasing a car's speed from 0 mph to 30 mph or from 50 mph to 60 mph?
50 mph to 60 mph
A 1-kg ball is released from a height of 6 m, and a 2-kg ball is released from a height of 3 m. Air resistance is negligible as they fall. Which of the following statements about these balls is correct?
Both balls will reach the ground with the same kinetic energy.
A heavy dart and a light dart are launched horizontally on a frictionless table by identical ideal springs. Both springs were initially compressed by the same amount. Which of the following statements about these darts is incorrect?
Both darts move free of the spring with the same speed.
A 4.0 kg object is moving with speed 2.0 m/s. A 1.0 kg object is moving with speed 4.0 m/s. Both objects encounter the same constant braking force, and are brought to rest. Which object travels the greater distance before stopping?
Both objects travel the same distance.
Two frisky otters slide down frictionless hillsides of the same height but different slopes. The slope of the hill of otter 1 is 30°, while the slope of the hill of otter 2 is 60°. If both start from rest, which otter is moving faster when she reaches the bottom of her hill?
Both otters have the same speed at the bottom.
Two cyclists who weigh the same and have identical bicycles ride up the same mountain, both starting at the same time. Joe rides straight up the mountain, and Bob rides up the longer road that has a lower grade. Joe gets to the top before Bob. Ignoring friction and wind resistance, which one of the following statements is true?
The amount of work done by Joe is equal to the amount of work done by Bob, but the average power exerted by Joe is greater than that of Bob.
A heavy frog and a light frog jump straight up into the air. They push off in such away that they both have the same kinetic energy just as they leave the ground. Air resistance is negligible. Which of the following statements about these frogs are correct?
The lighter frog goes higher than the heavier frog.
A lightweight object and a very heavy object are sliding with equal speeds along a level frictionless surface. They both slide up the same frictionless hill with no air resistance. Which object rises to a greater height?
They both slide to exactly the same height
