Name: _______________________________ # _______ Section: A B C D

Date: _____________________________ Teacher: Mr. Marcial

11th grade I Period Skills Study Guide

I. Read and Solve the following problems:

2) If 1,267 N force has 23.7 ° angle pulling on a block for 8.3 m. What’s the work?

3) A 68 kg runner exerts a force of 59 N . What is the acceleration of the runner?

4) If an engine does 7832 J of work to move an object 341 m. What force does it exert?

5) 3 women push a stalled car. Each woman pushes with a 425 N force. What is the mass of the car if the car
accelerates at a rate of 0.85 m/s 2.

6) Calculate the work done when a 20-N force pushes a cart 3.5 m?

7) How much work is required to lift a 360-kilogram piano to a window whose height is 10 meters from the ground?

8) A racing car acquires and acceleration of 5.0 m/s 2. If the net force causing the acceleration is 2.9 ×103 N . What is
the mass of the car?

9) If 100 N force has 30.0 ° angle pulling on 15 kg block for 5 m. What’s the work?

10) A rope is used to pull a 2458 kg minivan, giving it an acceleration of 0.98 m/s 2. What force does the rope exert?

11) A crane does work of 13,500 J with a force of 5200 N to lift a beam. How far can the beam be lifted (in meters)?

12) If a small motor does 520 J of work to move a toy car 260 m. What force does it exert?
B) Be able to identify the difference between and solve Kinetic, Potential, and Elastic Potential
Energy.

1) Define: Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy and Elastic Potential Energy.

2) What does Kinetic Energy depend on?

3) What does Potential Energy depend on?

4) What is the “constant” (k) in Elastic Potential Energy?

5) What is the Kinetic Energy of a 150 kg object that is moving with a speed of 15 m/s?

6) Calculate the spring constant of a spring that stores 100.0 J of energy when compressed 500.0 cm.

7) An object has a kinetic energy of 25 J and a mass of 34 kg, how fast is the object moving?

8) A 60.0-kg person walks from the ground to the roof of a 74.8 m tall building. How much gravitational potential
energy does she have at the top of the building?

9) A spring has an extension of 27 cm. Calculate the elastic potential energy stored in the spring (k = 100.0 N/m).

10) An object moving with a speed of 35 m/s and has a kinetic energy of 1500 J, what is the mass of the object.

11) A man climbs on to a wall that is 3.6 m high and gains 2268 J of potential energy. What is the mass of the man?

12) A box has a mass of 5.8 kg. The box is lifted from the garage floor and placed on a shelf. If the box gains
145 J of Potential Energy, how high is the shelf?

13) A compressed spring has the potential energy of 20.0 J and its spring constant is 200.0 N/m. Calculate the
displacement of the spring.

14) A spring is stretched with a spring constant of 3.5 N/m until it is extended by 50 cm. What is the elastic potential
energy stored by the spring?
C) Be able to solve Conservation of Energy Problems

Define: Mechanical Energy

1) A child sled with a combined mass of 50.0 kg slide down a frictionless hill that is 7.34 m high. If the sled starts from
rest, what is the speed at the bottom of the hill?

2) A 50 kg gorilla is sitting on the limb of a tree 4 meters above the ground. After he jumps off the limb, what is the
speed of the gorilla when he is 1.35 m above the ground?

3) An Olympic runner leaps over a hurdle. If the runner’s initial vertical speed is 2.2 m/s, how much will the runner’s
center of mass be raised during the jump?

4) A pendulum bob is released from some initial height such that the speed of the bob at the bottom of the swing is 1.9
m/s. What is the initial height of the bob?

5) Starting from rest, a child zooms down a frictionless slide from an initial height of 3.00 m. What is her speed at the
bottom of the slide? Assume she has a mass of 25.0 kg.

6) A 25.0 kg trunk strikes the ground with a speed of 12.5 m/s. If no energy is lost from air resistance, what is the
height from which the trunk fell?

7) A roller coaster starts from rest at point A. What is its speed at point C if the track is frictionless?

8) A rock is dropped off the edge of a cliff. If it is traveling at a speed of 24.2 m/s when it hits the ground, what is the
height of the cliff?

9) A 2kg mass is hanging from a string and acts as a pendulum as shown below. Fill in the data table below for the mass.
D) Be able to solve Power problems.

1) A student who weighs 500.0 N climbed the stairs from the first floor to the third floor, 15 m above, in 20 s.
a) How much work did she do? b) What was her power?

2) A box is pushed across the floor for a distance of 5.2 m with a force of 50.0 N in 5.9 s.
a) How much work is done? b) What is the power?

3) A teacher pushed a 98 N desk across a floor for a distance of 8.2 m. He exerted a horizontal force of 29 N for 4.3 s.
a) How much work was done? b) What was his power?

4) A person weighing 600.0 N gets on an elevator. The elevator lifts the person 6.4 m in 10.9 seconds. How much
power was used?

5) How much time is needed to produce 720 Joules of work if 93 watts of power is used?

6) If 68 W of power is produced in 18 seconds, how much work is done?

7) A set of pulleys lifts an 884 N crate 4.7 meters in 9.5 seconds. What power was used?

8) Calculate the power expended when a 500.0 N barbell is lifted 2.2 m in 2.0 s.

9) An elevator must lift 1000.0 kg a distance of 100.0 m at a velocity of 4.0 m/s. What is the average power the elevator
exerts during this trip?

10) A power mower does 9.00 x 105 J of work in 0.500 h. What power does it develop?

11) How long would it take a 500.0 W electric motor to do 1.50 x 105 J of work?

12) You do 45 J of work in 3.0 seconds. How much power do you use?
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2
KE=0.5 mv
2
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2
+ mg h =0.5 m v
1 2
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+ mg h2

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