EXERCISE CHAPTER 2

1.
Length/cm

10 Figure 2.5 shows a tape chart consisting of 5 tick

strips. Each strips containing 10 ticks).
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Determine the accleration of this motion.
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(dots formed by a 50 Hz ticker timer)
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0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 time/s

Figure 2.5

1. A car start from rest and accelerates uniformly along road for 10s and reaches a speed of
40 ms-1.Then, it moves at this speed for a while before arriving at a hill slope. The driver
stops the engine and let the car move up the hill slope freely until it stops. The distance
traveled along the hill slope is 0.5 km.Calculate
Check your answer:
(a) the acceleration of the car in the first 10s.
a) = 4ms-1, b) = 200m, c) = 1.6ms-2, d) t =25s
(b) the distance traveled along the straight road
(c) the deceleration of the car along the hill slope
(d) the time taken for the car to stop while moving the hill slope.

2. Given is graph of motion of an object moving along a straight line. Determine from this
graph the:
a) total distance traveled,
b) average velocity for this motion,
c) maximum and minimum accelerations.
 3. A car which is moving with constant velocity of 30ms-1 passes a point O.The driver applies brake
and the car decelerates uniformly to stop in 5s. Then, the driver reverses his car back to point O
in uniform acceleration in 5s.Using graphical method, calculate

(a) the displacement and average velocity of the car

(b) the distance traveled and the average speed of the car.

Solution: (graphical method is given)

v/ms-1

30

5 10 t/s

-30

4. Does a 2 kg rock have the inertia twice of a 1 kg rock?

5. A 3000-kg truck moving with a velocity of 10 m/s hits a 1000-kg parked car. The impact
causes the 1000-kg car to be set in motion at 15 m/s. Assuming that momentum is
conserved during the collision, determine the velocity of the truck after the collision.
 7.

Heavy mass

Force on lower string

A massive block is suspended on a string P and slowly pulled by another string Q attached to it
from below ,as shown in figure.

i) which string has greater tension string P or Q?

ii) which spring is more likely to break?
iii) Which property is important here mass or weight?
iv) If the spring is snapped downward immedistely ,which string is more likely to break?
Is mass or weight important this time?

8. A 15-kg medicine ball is thrown at a velocity of 20 m/s to a 60-kg person who is

at rest on ice. The person catches the ball and subsequently slides with the ball
across the ice. Determine the velocity of the person and the ball after the collision.