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1. Camille walks 5.0 km east, 7.1 km west, 12.2 km east and 4.7 km west.
a) What distance did she travel?

b) What is her displacement?

c) If it took Camille 2.0 h, what is her speed?

d) If it took Camille 2.0 h what is her velocity?

2. Robin rollerblades to work and back every day on a smooth, even path. She leaves at 8
am and returns at 6 pm. She lives 15 km away from her work and it takes her 1.5
hours to get there.
a) What speed does she travel at?

b) At the end of any given day what distance has she travelled and what is
her displacement?

3. What is the average speed of a skier who travels 2400 m down a hill in 54.0 s?

4. Sakic drives a hockey puck into the goal at a speed of 54.8 m/s. From a distance of
50.0 m, how long will it take to reach the net?

5. A police officer sees the flash of a gun in the hands of an armoured car robber 150 m
away. If the bullet travels at a speed of 559 m/s, how much time does she have to duck?
 6. The following graph shows the motion of a formula car on a test track. Answer the
following questions.

a) Calculate the
average speed between 0
s and 12 s.

b) Determine the total

distance driven between 0
s and 12 s.

c) Determine the
average speed for the
whole interval.

d) Determine the
distance travelled over the
whole interval.

7. A car is travelling at 50 km/h. After 12 seconds it is travelling at 60 km/h. What was

the car’s acceleration?

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8. An airplane flying at 100m/s and accelerates uniformly at 0.8m/s for 22s. What is its
final speed?
Practice work problems:

1. A force of 20 N was used to push a box along the floor for a distance of 8.0 m, how
much work was done?

2. How much work is done to lift a 20.0 kg sack of potatoes vertically for 6.50 m?

3. Brenda lifts her toys into her tree house in a homemade elevator that has a mass of
2.50 kg. The tree house is 3.00 m above the ground. How much work does Brenda
do when she lifts 9.0 kg of toys into the house? When she lifts 25.0 kg of toys?

4. During a major downtown fire, the Sherwood Park Fire Department pumped 400 000
L of water to the 27th floor of a building 96 m above the street. How much work
was done in the process? (1.0 L of water has a mass of 1.0 kg)

5. If a small motor does 520 J of work to move a toy car 260 m, what force did it exert
on the car?

6. A boy on a bicycle drags a wagon full of newspapers at a constant speed of 0.80 m/s
for 30 min using a force of 40 N. How much work has he done?
Potential Energy:

1. A 1.2 kg falcon has gained an altitude of 875 m. What is her potential energy
now?

2. On a Ferris wheel ride Bill has attained a height of 53.0 m. Find Bill's potential energy if his mass
is 75.0 kg.

3. Flight 723 has a mass of 3.7 x 105 kg and cruises at an altitude of 12 km.
Determine the potential energy.

4. Find the potential energy of the top sheet of paper on a pile 3.5 cm high if one
sheet weighs 1.2 g.

5. A 415 mg ant has made it 82 cm up a tree. Find the potential energy.

Kinetic Energy

1. Determine the kinetic energy of an 85 kg football player running at a velocity of 8.2

m/s.

2. What is the kinetic energy of a 1000 g brick that is thrown with a velocity of 22 m/s?

3. A falling piano reaches a velocity of 120 km/h. Find the kinetic energy if the mass of
the piano is 357 kg.
4. How many Joules of energy does a 1750 kg car moving at 50 km/h have?

5. How much kinetic energy does 32 g bullet have if it moves at 312 m/s?

Efficiency
1. Today flashlights are beginning to use LEDs to convert electrical energy to light
energy with an efficiency of 90%. If the battery uses up 17.0J of electrical energy
how much light can be produced?

2. A battery charger uses 6585 J of electrical energy to charge a battery. If 5420 J of

energy are stored in the battery, what is the efficiency of the energy transfer?

3. An electric winch uses 3.78  104 J of electrical energy to pull a boat on a boat trailer
up a ramp out of a lake. If the total mass of the boat and trailer is 635 kg, and the
winch pulls them a vertical distance of 3.2 m, what is the efficiency of the winch in
lifting the boat and trailer?

4. Suppose that while rubbing your hands together rapidly, your muscles do 450 J of
work. If the thermal energy of your skin increases by 153 J, what is the efficiency of
your muscles in producing thermal energy?

5. An archer draws her bow and stores 34.8 J of elastic potential energy in the bow. She
releases the 63 g arrow, giving it an initial speed of 28 m/s. How efficient is the
transfer of the elastic potential energy of the bow to the kinetic energy of the arrow?
You need to first calculate kinetic energy then calculate efficiency

6. Baseballs can be thrown with a velocity of 100mph (44.4m/s). Calculate the kinetic
energy of a 0.25kg baseball and then determine the efficiency if 526J of work were
done to make it go this fast.

7. The efficiency of a lift is 72.5%, how much energy is needed to raise a 2.00x102kg
mass to a height of 5.65m?

8. A ramp is used to roll a barrel onto a truck. The barrel has a mass of 43.3kg and the
truck is 1.28m higher than the ground. It takes a constant force of 95.0N to push it up
 the 6.40m long ramp. How efficient is the ramp? [Consider the purpose of the ramp
or the useful energy is to lift the object 1.28m]

CHALLENGE QUESTIONS:
9. Solid gel camping fuel (Sterno) can deliver about 26kJ per gram burned. If it is
transferred with a 10% efficiency to water how many grams of fuel will it take to
supply 200 kJ to heat your supper?

10. You are having fun on a water slide. You start from the top of the water slide, which
is 2.7 m above the surface of the water. If you enter the water with a speed of 4.8 m/s,
how efficient is the water slide in converting your gravitational potential energy into
kinetic energy? Assume that your mass is 58 kg.

11. An experimental model rocket has a mass of 0.054 kg. The fuel that was used in one
test had 215 J of chemical potential energy. When the rocket reached an altitude of
119 m, it was travelling at 48 m/s and still rising. With what efficiency did the rocket
convert chemical potential energy into mechanical energy?

12. A farmer is thinking about using a small waterfall on his property to generate hydro-
electric energy. He determines that 3155 kg of water falls a distance of 15.0 m every
minute. Assuming that the process is 74 percent efficient, how much electrical energy
could he generate every minute?

13. Some school physics laboratories have a device called a ballistic pendulum. In a
ballistic pendulum, a spring-loaded launcher fires a metal sphere into a cavity in a
pendulum bob, causing the pendulum to rise. Suppose that a spring-loaded launcher
gives a 750 g sphere a speed of 1.5 m/s. The sphere is caught in the cavity of the
pendulum bob, which had a mass of 125 g without the sphere. If the pendulum bob
and sphere rise to a vertical height of 7.2 cm, what is the efficiency of the ballistic
pendulum in converting the kinetic energy of the metal sphere into gravitational
potential energy of the pendulum and sphere?
Kinematics (Acceleration)

1. Find the acceleration of a racing car if its speed is decreased uniformly from 66m/s to
44m/s over an 11s period.(-2.0 m/s2)

2. An arrow is shot straight up with an initial speed of 98m/s. Nine seconds later its
speed is only 9.8m/s. At what rate is the arrow slowed down by gravity? (-9.8 m/s2)

3. The race car is travelling at 45m/s and it is slowing down uniformly at 3.25m/s2.
Calculate the speed after 6.0s. (26 m/s)

Dynamics

1. A 20 kg object out in space is attracted to the Earth by a force of gravity of 100 N. How
fast will this object accelerate towards the Earth, if it was free falling?

2. 1.5 kg mass accelerates across a smooth table at 15 m/s2. What is the net force acting on
it?

3. A box with a mass of 50.0 kg is placed on the floor of an elevator. What force does the
box exert on the floor when the elevator is accelerating upward at the rate of 2.0 m/s2?
When is accelerating downward at the rate of 3.0 m/s2?