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This document provides solutions to 17 physics problems involving work, power, energy. The problems calculate things like: the work done by pushing objects over distances with steady forces; the work done climbing stairs or lifting objects against gravity; calculating forces from work done or distances moved; and determining kinetic and potential energies of moving objects. The document uses physics equations to solve for values like work, force, energy, distance, time and power.

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Work, Power, Energy WS #1 Solutions: Page 1 of 1

This document provides solutions to 17 physics problems involving work, power, energy. The problems calculate things like: the work done by pushing objects over distances with steady forces; the work done climbing stairs or lifting objects against gravity; calculating forces from work done or distances moved; and determining kinetic and potential energies of moving objects. The document uses physics equations to solve for values like work, force, energy, distance, time and power.

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Work, Power, Energy WS #1 Solutions

1. How much work will you do if you push a block of concrete 4.3 m along a floor with a steady
force of 25 N? 110 J

2. If your mass is 70.0 kg, how much work will you do climbing a flight of stairs 25.0 m high,
moving at a steady pace? 1.72 x 104 J

3. Your car is stuck in the mud. You push on it with a force of 300.0 N for 10.0 s, but it will not
budge. How much work have you done in 10.0 s? 0 J

4. How much work is done by the Earth’s gravitational field on a 10.0 kg mass when the mass
drops a distance of 5.0 m? 4.9 x 102 J

5. A girl uses a 3.0 m long ramp to push her 110 kg motorbike up to a trailer, the floor of which
is 1.2 m above the ground. How much work is done n the motorbike? 1.3 x 103 J

6. A force was used to push a box along the floor for a distance of 8.0 m. If 160.0 J of work
was done, what net force was applied? 20 N

7. A force of 50.0 N is used to do 480.0 J of work to move an object. What distance was the
object moved? 9.6 m

8. A 2.0 kg puck accelerated at 5.0 m/s2 for 0.50 m across a frictionless air hockey table. How much
work was done on the puck? F must calculated first, F = 10.N then calculate work W= 5.0 J

9. A bulldozer pushed a large rock with a force of 5000 N at 2.0 m/s for 20 s. How much work was
done? Find distance = 40. m then W = 2.0 x 105 J

10. How much work is required to lift a 50 kg object straight up 10. m? W = 4.9 x 103 J

11. How much power does a crane develop doing 60 000 J of work in 5.00 minutes? 200 W

12. How long does it take a 2.5 kW electric motor to do 75 000 J of work? 30. s

13. How much work can a 500 W electric mixer do in 2.5 minutes? 75 000 J

14. A crane lifts a 1500 kg car 20 m straight up.


(a) How much potential energy does the car gain? 294 000 J
(b) How much potential energy does the crane transfer to the car? 294 000 J
(c) How much work does the crane do? 294 000 J

15. A 4.00 kg rubber ball drops from a height of 5.00 m to the ground and bounces back to a
height of 3.00 m.
(a) How much potential energy does the ball lose on the trip down? 196 J
(b) How much potential energy does the ball regain on the trip back up? 117.6 J
(c) What is the net loss of potential energy during the bounce? 78.4 J

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16. What is the kinetic energy of a 0.500 kg ball thrown at 30.0 m/s? 225 J

17. What is the mass of an object traveling at 20 m/s with kinetic energy of 4000 J? 20. kg

18. A 0.50 kg rubber ball is thrown into the air. At a height of 20 m above the ground, it is
traveling at 15.0 m/s.
(a) What is the ball’s kinetic energy? 56.3 J
(b) What is its gravitational potential energy relative to the ground? 98 J
(c) How much work was done by someone at ground level throwing the ball into the air?
154.3 J

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