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REVISION QUESTIONS 1) A body of 200N is suspended by a string 10 M long.

A horizontal force is applied to pull it a way 6M in horizontal direction find the applied horizontal force .

2) A 12m ladder of weight 200N is place at an angle of 60 to the horizontal with one end B leaning against a smooth wall and the other end A on the ground, find A) The reaction R (b) what are the horizontal and vertical component of the reaction F at A see figure below

3) Calculate the torque acting on the road AB (see figure below)

4) For the situation show in figure below find the values of T1 and T2 if the weight is 600N

5) suppose in figure below weighs W1=500N find the value of W2 and W3 if the is to hang in equilibrium.

6) Three dogs boby, tom and jack are pulling a bone boby is pulling with a force of 100N and tom with 150N. The angle between tom and boby is 70. How hard should jack pull for the bone remain stationery?

7) A uniform beam which is 5M long and weight 400N has two forces fa and fb acting on it as shown fb =1000N what are the values of fa and fr when the beam is in equilibrium ?

8) A 50N bag of cement is placed on a 4m rod 1.0m from one end the rod it self weighs 5n. Two men carry the rod one at each end. How much each support?

9) The span of a bridge is 80m between supports, the span weight 100000N. Calculate the force acting on the support, when a train weighting 150000N is 20m from one end.

10) Two parallel rail tracks run North- South. Train A moves North with a speed of 54km/hr and train B moves south with a speed of 90km/hr, Calculate (A) relative velocity of V respect to A. (B) relative velocity of ground with respect to B? ( C) Velocity of a monkey running on the roof of the train against its motion.( with velocity of 18km/hr with respect to train A) as observed by a man standing on the ground.

10) A river flows due east with a velocity of 6km/hr while a boat moves due North with a velocity of 8km/hr both relative to the shore, What is the velocity of the boat relative to the river?

11) A river stream can travel at the rate of 15km/hr in still water. How long will the trip between two cities 60km apart take? A) Downstream B) Upstream if the river current is 3km/hr.

12) A person of a mass 100kg carry a suit case of a mass 20kg run horizontally through a distance of 20m to catch a bus what is the work done by the gravitational force against the man? (take gravity as 10m/s2)

13) A horse pulls a wagon with a force of 200N at angle of 60* with the horizontal and moves at speed of 360km/hr A) what is the power developed?

B) How much work he does in a minute?

14) A block of mass 3kg starts at a height of h=60cm on a plane with an inclination angle of 30* up on reaching the bottom of ramp, the block slides along the horizontal surface. If on both surfaces the coefficient of fraction is k=0.2. How far will the block slide on the horizontal surface before coming to rest?

15. How much work must be done to raise this barrel of mass m=20kg on the plate form?

CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS 1) The mass of a body as measured by two students is given as 1.4kg and 1.42kg which of the two is more accurate and why?

2) Do all physical quantities have dimension? If no name four physical quantities which are dimension less.

3) Can a body said to be rest as well as in Motion at the same time?

4) Can a particle have varying speed but a constant velocity?

5) Two particles A and B start moving toward each other with the velocity 10m/s and 15m/s respectively from the separation of 500m. What is the displacement of A with respect to (w.r.t) B after 4 sec?

6) Can an object be accelerated without speeding up or slowing down?

7) Is it possible that the brakes of a car are so perfect that the car stops instantaneously? If not, why not?

8) The magnitude of the resultant of the two vectors of magnitudes 4N and 3N is 1N. what is the angle between them?

9) Can two vectors of different magnitude be combined to give a zero resultant?

10) Is it possible for a body to change the direction of its velocity vector when the body is experiencing constant acceleration?

11) Can a body have a constant velocity and still have a varying speed?

12) Is it possible to have two- dimensional motion with acceleration in only onedimension?

13) Can a body have zero velocity and still be accelerating?

14) Is it possible for a body to have constant speed but variable velocity? If possible give one example

15) Four balls are thrown with the same initial velocity at angles, 25*,35*,45*and 65.7* with horizontal. Which ball would come back to the ground at the earliest and why?

16) Which of the Newton laws of motion is involved in rocket propulsions?

17) Action and reaction are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. Then, why do they not balance each other?

18) A thief jumps from the upper storey of a house with a load on his back what is the force of the load on his back when the thief is in air?

19) A meteorite burns in the atmospheres before it reaches the earths surface. What happens to its momentum?

20) A man is at rest in the middle of a pond on the perfectly friction less ice. How can he get himself to the shore?

21) Mention the condition for maximum and minimum pull of a lift on the supporting cable.

22) When a body falls to the earth, the earth also moves up to meet it. But the earths motion is said is not noticeable?

23) A vessel containing water is given a constant acceleration toward the right along a straight horizontal path. Which of the following faces correctly represents the surface of the liquid?

24) It is difficult to move a cycle along a road with different its brakes on. Explain.

25) Proper inflation of tires of vehicles saves fuel. Why?

26) A block of mass 2kg is placed on the floor. The coefficient of static friction is 0.4. A force of 2.5N is applied on the block as shown in figure below. Calculate the force of friction between the block and the floor.

27) Is it possible to have motion in the absence of a force?

28) If a small sport car collides head on with a massive truck, which vehicle experiences the greater acceleration?

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