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FORCE - Practice Problems

The document contains 30 physics problems related to forces, motion, collisions, and other concepts. The problems provide information like mass, velocity, time, force, etc and ask to calculate values like acceleration, impulse, tension, work, etc. Example calculations provided include finding the impulse and force exerted by a bat on a ball during a cricket shot, calculating the reading on a weighing machine when in different states of motion, and determining tensions in strings or rods under various load conditions.

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FORCE - Practice Problems

The document contains 30 physics problems related to forces, motion, collisions, and other concepts. The problems provide information like mass, velocity, time, force, etc and ask to calculate values like acceleration, impulse, tension, work, etc. Example calculations provided include finding the impulse and force exerted by a bat on a ball during a cricket shot, calculating the reading on a weighing machine when in different states of motion, and determining tensions in strings or rods under various load conditions.

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LECTURE ZOOM -FORCE

1. A cricket ball of mass 150 gm is moving with velocity 12 m/s and is hit by
a bat so that the ball gets rebound back with velocity 20 m/s. Duration of
contact between the ball and bat is 0.01 sec. Find the impulse and force
exerted by the bat on the ball. [4.8 N.s., 480 N]

2. A metal plate of mass M is kept held in midair by firing ‘n’ bullets in time
t second each of mass ‘m’ with velocity v from below, if the bullet falls
 mnv 
dead after hitting the plate the find M.  gt 
 

3. Find acceleration of the system and find tension between M2 and M3.
M3 M2

M1

4. Find acceleration and tension in the string.


M2

M1

5. Man weighing 500N [mass 50 kg] stands on a weighing machine placed in


a lift. What will be the reading of a machine if the lift is
i) Moving up with acceleration 1 m/s2
ii) Moving down with acceleration 1 m/s2
iii) Moving up with constant speed 1 m/s.
[550 N, 450N, 500N]
6. Initial speed of a 2kg mass is 5 m/s force acts on it for 4 sec. in the
direction of force and force time graph is shown in the fig. Find its speed at
t = 4 sec. [8.5 Ns, 9.25 m/s]
F (N)

t (sec)
0 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 4

7. Figure shows a man of mass 60kg standing on a light weighing machine


kept in a box of mass 30kg. The box is hanging from a pulley fixed to the
celling through a light rope, the other end of which is held by the man
himself. If the man manages to keep the box at rest, (a) what is weight
shown by the machine (b) what force should be exert on the rope to get his
correct weight on the machine? [15kg, 1800N]
8. A body of mass m is suspended by two strings making an angle  and 
with the horizontal. Find tension in the strings.

 

 mg  s  mg  s  
 
mg  sin     sin     

9. A body of mass 5 kg is hanging from a string of negligible weight, A


horizontal force F is applied at a midpoint of the string due to which two
parts of the string include an angle 1500. Find F, and tension in upper part
 50 N 100 N 
of the string.  3 , 3 
 

10. A machine gun of mass 10kg fires 20gm bullets at the rate of 10bullts per
second with speed 500m/s what force is necessary to hold the gun in
position.
[100N]

11. A bomb is thrown in a horizontal direction with velocity 50m/s. Explodes


into two fragments of masses 6kg and 3kg. Heavier continues to move in
same direction with velocity 80m/s calculate the velocity of lighter
fragments [- 10 m/s]

12. A stationary bomb of mass 17kg explodes into three pieces of masses 4kg,
5kg, 8kg respectively. If the pieces of mass 4kg and 5kg are ejected with
speeds of 15m/s and 16m/s respectively in mutually perpendicular
direction, find the speed of 8kg. [12.5m/s]

13. A rocket is set for a vertical firing. It the exhaust speed is 100m/s, how
much gas must be ejected per second to supply, the thrust needed (i) To
overcome the weight of the rocket (ii) To give rocket an initial vertical
upward acceleration of 20m/s2. Mass of rocket is 6000kg
[60kg/sec, 180kg/s]
14. A body of mass 5kg makes an elastic collision with another body at rest
and continues to move in the original direction after the collision with a
th
1
velocity equal to of its original velocity. The mass of second body is
10
45
[ kg ]
11

15. A ball of mass ‘m’ moving along positive X direction with K.E. K, and
linear momentum P, undergoes elastic head on collision with stationary
ball B of mass M, After the collision the ball A moves along – X axis with
K 4P 
K .E .  . Find final linear momentum of ball B [ i]
9 3

m
16. A body of mass ‘m’ strikes another body of mass at rest. Assuming
9
1
impact to be perfectly inelastic find the fractional K.E. lost. [ ]
10

17. A body of mass 6kg is under a force which cause displacement is given by
t2
s m . Find work done in 2sec. [3J]
4

18. Two blocks of masses 40gm and 20gm moving with velocities 3m/s and
2 m/s respectively collides head on if e = 0.5, find their final velocities.
[2.5m/s, 3.0 m/s]

19. Two particles of masses ‘m’ and ‘2m’ moving in the opposite direction
collide each other elastically with velocity 2V and V respectively find their
velocities after collision. [-2V, V]

20. Two balls of masses 2kg and 4kg are moving towards each other with
velocities 4m/s and 2m/s respectively on a frictionless surface. After
collision 2kg ball rebounds with velocity 2m/s then
(a) velocity of 4kg ball after collision.
 1
(b) find e 1m / s 2 
21. A man of mass 50 kg stands on a frame of mass 30kg. He pulls on a light
rope which passes over a pulley. The other end of the rope is attached to
the frame. For the system to be in equilibrium what force man must exert
on the rope? [400N]

22. A bomb explodes into two fragments of masses in the ratio 1 : 3. If K.E. of
K 
smaller fragment is K, find K.E. of larger fragment.  3 

23. A ball of mass ‘m’ makes a head on collision with an identical ball at rest..
3  1 
If K.E. of balls after the collision is the original find ‘e’  2
4  

24. A ball is dropped from height 100m. Due to collision with earth 20%
energy is lost to what height the ball will rise. [30m]

25. A force acting on a particle varies with position as F = 4x2 find work done
by the force in displacing particle from 1) x = 0 to x = 3m (2) x = 2m to
x = 5m. [36J, 156J]

26. A particle of mass M moves along a straight line with a velocity varying
with its distance travelled, according to an equation V  a x where a is
constant. The total work done by are forces during a displacement from
 ma 2 d 
x = 0 to x = d  2 
 
  
27. When force F  7 i  3 j  5 k acts on a particle whose position vector is
  
i  j  k find torque acting on it    

 8 i  2 j  10 k 
28. A metal bar 70cm long and 4.0kg in mass is supported on two knife edges
placed 10cm from each end. A 6.0kg weight is suspended at 30cm from
one end. Find the reactions at the knife edges. [56N, 44N]

29. In the figure shown, the bar is uniform and weighting 500N. Find W for
which T1 = T2 [1500N]

T1 T2

0.4 0.3
0.3
W

30. A uniform rod has mass 10kg. A body of mass 5kg is suspended from one
end of the rod. If the rod balances at a point 50cm from the same end. Find
the length of the rod. [1.5m]

31. A uniform rod of weight 100N, and length 1m carries weight 40N and 60N
suspended from 20cm and 90cm marks respectively. Where you provide a
knife edge to balance the metre scale. [56cm]

32. A rod has length 1m and mass 2kg. The rod is supported at its ends. A
body of mass 4kg is suspended from point 0.4m from one end of the rod.
Find the reactions at the support. [34N, 26N]

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