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QUESTIONS OF WORK, POWER AND ENERGY

Why is it desired to hold a gun tight to one's shoulder when it is being fired?
Find the angle between force
F = (3i + 4j + 5k) unit and displacement
d = (5i + 4j + 3k) unit. Also find the projection of F on d.
Can the kinetic energy be increased without the application of external forces? If
yes, give an example.
Can there be a situation in which E V < 0?
When is the exchange of energy maximum during an elastic collision?
In an atom, an electron is revolving around the nucleus. What is the work done?
Give two examples of conservative forces.
The sign of work done by a force on a body is important to understand. State
carefully if the following quantities are positive or negative:(i) Work done by a
mass in lifting a bucket out of a well by means of a rope tied to the bucket.(ii)
Work done by gravitational force in the above case.(iii) Work done by friction on a
body sliding down an inclined plane.(iv) Work done by an applied force on a body
moving on a rough horizontal plane with uniform velocity.(v) Work done by the
resistive force of air on a vibrating pendulum in bringing it to rest.
A trolley of mass 300 kg carrying a sand bag 25 kg is moving uniformly with a
speed of 27 kmh-1 on a frictionless track. After a while sand starts leaking out of
a hole on the trolleys floor at the rate of 0.05 kgs-1. What is the speed of the
trolley after the entire sand bag is empty?
Show that in headon collision between two balls of equal masses moving along a
straight line, the balls simply exchange their velocities. (inelastic collision)
Prove that in elastic collision the relative velocity vector before collision and after
collision reverses its direction?
Show that mechanical energy is conserved in case of conservative force. How
expression changes in case of non conservative forces.
Two bodies of masses m1 and m2 have the same linear momentum. What is the
ratio of their kinetic energies?
A truck and a car moving with the same kinetic energy are brought to rest by the
application of brakes, which provide equal retardation. Which one of them will
come to rest in a shorter distance?
Will water at the foot of the waterfall be at a different temperature from that at
the top? If yes, explain.
The momentum of an object is doubled. How does it's. K.E. change?
If the linear momentum of a body increases by 20%, what will be the % increase
in the kinetic energy of the body?
Answer the following:
(a) The casing of a rocket in flight burns up due to friction. At whose expense
is the heat energy required for burning obtained? The rocket or the
atmosphere?

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Comets move around the sun in highly elliptical orbits. The gravitational
force on the comet due to the sun is not normal to the comets velocity in
general. Yet the work done by the gravitational force over every complete
orbit of the comet is zero. Why?
(c) An artificial satellite orbiting the earth in very thin atmosphere loses its
energy gradually due to dissipation against atmospheric resistance,
however small. Why then does its speed increase progressively as it comes
closer and closer to the earth?
State the principle of conservation of energy. Define kinetic and potential energy.
Prove it for the freely falling body.
Two blocks of masses m1, m2 are connected by light spring on a smooth
horizontal surface. The two masses are pulled apart and then released. Prove that
the ratio of their acceleration is inversely proportional to their masses.
Explain potential energy with example. Derive an expression for the potential
energy stored in a system of a block attached to a mass-less spring, when the
block is pulled from its equilibrium position.
Show that force of spring in spring mass system is conservative. (Take friction
between the surface and mass as zero.)
a. Plot the variation of K, V and E.
b. Why you can consider E= V + K.
c. At what point K and V becomes equal.
State and prove the work energy principle for variable force.
A body of mass 1.0 kg initially at rest is moved by a horizontal force of 0.5 N on a
smooth frictionless table. Calculate the work done by the force in 10 seconds and
show that this work done is equal to the change in kinetic energy of the body.
A girl of mass 40 kg climbs a rope 6m long at constant speed in 15 seconds. What
power she expands during the climb?
What are the two types of collision? Derive an expression to calculate the final
velocity of two bodies undergoing one dimensional elastic collision. Discuss the
special cases.
An object of mass 0.4kg moving with a velocity of 4m/s collides with another
object of mass 0.6kg moving in same direction with a velocity of 2m/s. If the
collision is perfectly inelastic, what is the loss of K.E. due to impact?
Two ball bearings of mass m each moving in the opposite directions with equal
speed v collide head-on with each other. Predict 0 = the outcome of the collision,
assuming it to be perfectly elastic.
A ball, whose kinetic energy is E, is projected at an angle of 45o to the horizontal.
What will be the kinetic energy of the ball at the highest point of its flight?
A body of mass M is moved along a straight line by a machine delivering a
constant power P. Find the expression for the distance moved by the body in
terms of M, P and t.

31. A body is lifted to the top of a mountain over the path ADC, and again over the
path ABC. Prove that the work done is the same provided the force is directed
along the tangent to the path and the coefficient of friction is the same on both
the slopes.
32. What are conservative forces? Obtain expression for the work done by a variable
force?
33. The spring has a force constant of 24 N m-1. The mass of the block attached to
the spring is 4 kg. Initially, the block is at rest and spring is un-stretched. The
horizontal surface is frictionless. If a constant horizontal force of 10 N is applied
on the block, then what is the speed of the block when it has been moved
through a distance of 0.5 m?
34. A body of mass 0.3 kg is taken up an inclined plane of length 10m and height 5
m, and then allowed to slide down to the bottom again. The coefficient of friction
between the body and the plane is 0.15. What is the (a) Work done by the
gravitational force over the round trip,(b) Work done by the applied force over the
upward journey,(c) Work done by frictional force over the round trip,(d) Kinetic
energy of the body at the end of the trip?

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