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Physics 11 DYNAMICS REVIEW PROBLEMS

1. A rope is used to pull a 1750 kg car, giving it an acceleration of 1.35 m/s2. What force does the
rope exert? (2.36 x 103 N)

2. A racing car undergoes a uniform acceleration of 4.0 m/s2. If the net force causing the
acceleration is 3 100 N, what is the mass of the car? (780 kg)

3. A 5.2 kg bowling ball is accelerated from rest to a velocity of 12 m/s as the bowler covers 5.0 m
of approach before releasing the ball. What force is exerted on the ball during this time? (75 N)

4. A high jumper, falling at 4.0 m/s, lands on a foam pit and comes to rest, compressing the pit 0.4
m. If the pit is able to exert a net force of 1200 N on the high jumper in breaking the fall, what is
the jumper’s mass? (60 kg)

5. When a 20.0 kg child steps off a 3.0 kg stationary skateboard with an acceleration of 0.50 m/s2,
with what acceleration will the skateboard travel in the opposite direction? Hint: Use Newton’s
Third Law. (3.3 m/s2)

6. On Planet Phat-Tung, a 50.0 kg barbell can be lifted by only an exerting force of 180 N. What is
the acceleration of gravity on planet Phat-Tung? If the same barbell is lifted on Earth, what
minimal force is needed? (3.6 m/s2, 490 N)

7. A force of 20.0 N accelerates a 9.0 kg wagon at 2.0 m/s2 along the sidewalk. How large is the
frictional force and what is the coefficient of friction? (2.0 N, 0.02)

8. A 2.0 kg brick has a sliding coefficient of friction of 0.38. What force must be applied to the
brick for it to move at a constant velocity? (7.4 N)

9. In bench-pressing 100 kg, a weight lifter applies a force of 1040 N. How large is the upward
acceleration of the weights during the lift? (0.6 m/s2)

10. An elevator that weighs 3.0 x 103 N is accelerated upward at 1.0 m/s2. What force does the cable
exert to give it this acceleration? (3.3 x 103 N)

11. A 0.50 kg rocket accelerates from 20.0 m/s to 45.0 m/s in 0.70 s. Calculate the overall net force
acting on it. What is the thrust of the rocket? (18N, 23 N)

12. A 10.0 kg rock thrown into the water sinks at a constant speed of 2.0 m/s. What is the upward
resistive force of the water on the stone? (98 N)

13. A 2.0 kg sponge is dropped from rest, pulled down by gravity. How fast will it be travelling in
6.0 s, if a 5.0 N force of air resistance acts on it? (44 m/s)

14. Two boxes are tied together by a piece of string on a frictionless table. Each box has a mass of
10 kg. One of the boxes is then pulled with a force of 40 N. What will be the tension in the
string connecting the boxes? (20 N)

15. Repeat question number 15, but there is a coefficient of friction between the boxes and the table
of 0.20. Determine the acceleration of the boxes and the tension in the string connecting the
boxes. (0.04 m/s2, 20 N)
16. Find the acceleration of the following objects if there is no friction. (3 m/s2)

17. Find the force in strings A and B (may be different) for the following train of blocks over a
frictionless surface if the train is accelerating at 2.0 m/s2 to the right. (20 N, 10 N)

18. Find the acceleration of the following pair of connected objects. (7 m/s2)

19. A spring has a constant of 875 N/m. What hanging mass will cause this spring to stretch 4.50 m?
(402 kg)

20. A hanging 7.5 kg object stretches a spring 1.1 m. What is the spring constant? (67 N/m)

21. Two spherical objects have masses of 1.5 x 105 kg and 8.5 x 102 kg, and their centers are
separated by a distance of 2500 m. Find the gravitational attraction between them. (1.4 x 10-9 N)

22. Two spherical objects have equal masses and experience a gravitational force of 85 N towards
one another. Their centers are 36 mm apart. Determine each of their masses. (4.1 x 104 kg)

23. Compute the gravitational field strength for the surface of a planet whose radius is twice that of
the Earth and whose mass is the same as that of the Earth. (2.45 m/s2)

24. Compute the gravitational field strength at a height of 5 earth radii above the surface of Earth.
(0.27 m/s2)

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