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CHAPTER 1
PROBLEMS

1. A car traveling at a speed of 27.8 m/s, what is its speed in km/h
2. While on a road trip through Penang, you needed to convert the following speed
limits to miles/hour:
a) 50 km/hr
b) 75 km/hr
3. Given that the speed of light is m/s 10 3.0
8
, what would it be in miles per hour?
4. Density is the ratio of mass to volume. Mercury has a density of 1.36 x 10
4
kg/m
3
.
What is the density of mercury in units of g/cm
3
?
5. The high speed train in France known as the TGV V150 has broken a new world
record. It can make top speed at 574.8 km/h. Convert the unit to miles per hour
(mi/h). (1 mile=1.609 km).
6. The mass of a solid cube is 856 g, and each edge has a length of 5.35 cm.
Determine the density of the cube in SI units.
7. Water emerges from the nozzle of a fountain at 75 km/h. Express the speed of the
water in meters per second.
8. One gallon of paint (volume = 3.78 x 10
-3
m
3
) covers an area of 25.0 m
2
. What is the
thickness of the paint on the wall?
9. A factory uses 10 barrel of diesel in a day. Convert the use in gallon/second if
1 barrel of diesel = 180 litre
1 gallon = 3.785 x 10
-3
m
3

1 litre = 10
-3
m
3


10. Can two physical quantities with different units but the same dimension be added
together? Explain or give an example.
11. Show that
a
x 2
t = is dimensionally correct. (a is acceleration, t is time, and x is
length ).
12. Deduce the dimension for the following quantities and state the units:
a) momentum,
b) density and
c) energy.
13. Show that the expression x = vt + at
2
is dimensionally correct, where x is a
coordinate and has units of length, v is speed, a acceleration and t is time.
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14. The displacement of a particle when moving under uniform acceleration is some
function of time and the acceleration. Suppose we write this displacement s = ka
m
t
n
,
where k is a dimensionless constant. By using dimensional analysis, determine the
values of m and n?
15. The period T of a simple pendulum is measured in time and is
g
T

t 2 =
where l is the length of the pendulum and g is the free-fall acceleration in units of
length divided by the square of time. Show that this equation is dimensionally correct.

16. The volume of an object as a function of time is calculated by V= At
3
+B/t, where t is
time measured in seconds and V is in cubic meters. Determine the dimension of the
constants A and B.


17. Newtons law of universal gravitation is
2
r
Mm
G F =
where F is the force of gravity, M and m are masses, and r is a length. Force has the
SI units kg.m/s
2
. What is the SI unit of the constant G?






















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CHAPTER 2
PROBLEMS
Linear Kinematics
1. A car moving at h km 95 passes a 1.00-km-long train traveling in the same direction
on a track that is parallel to the road. If the speed of the train is h, km 75 how long
does it take the car to pass the train, and how far will the car have traveled in this
time? What are the results if the car and train are instead traveling in opposite
directions?
2. A car accelerates from rest to 100 m/s in 8.5 s. What is the acceleration in km/h
2
?
3. An air molecule is moving at a speed of 459 m/s. How many meter should the
molecule move during 7.00 ms (milliseconds) if it didnt collide with any other
molecules?
4. A certain kind of airplane must reach a speed of at least 27.8 m/s before take off, and
can accelerate at 2.0 m/s
2
.
a) If the runway is 150 m long, can this airplane reach the proper speed for
takeoff?
b) If not, what minimum length must the runway have?
5. In coming to a stop, a car leaves skid marks 75m long on the highway. Assuming a
deceleration of 6.0 m/s
2
, estimate the speed of the car just before braking.
6. A car travels 90.0 minutes on the highway. For the first 31.7 minutes it travels 75.9
km/h. It maintains 98.3 km/h for the remainder of the trip. What was the average
speed of the vehicle in km/h?
7. A vehicle accelerates from rest at 8.43 m/s/s for 4.9 s. What is the final speed of the
vehicle?
8. How far does the vehicle in question 2 travel?
9. A stunt driver starting from rest needs to achieve a speed of 27.9 m/s. If her vehicle
accelerates at 8.07 m/s/s, what distance (in m) must she travel to achieve the desired
speed?
10. A car decelerates at a constant rate from 94.7 km/h to 53.2 km/h over a distance of
0.257 km. How many seconds is the car decelerating?
11. How many seconds is required to stop a vehicle travelling 69.3 km/h if it decelerates
at 8.58 m/s/s?

Freely Falling Bodies
12. A ballplayer catches a ball 3.0 s after throwing it vertically upward. With what speed
did he throw it, and what height did it reach?
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13. Suppose that a ball is dropped from a tower 70.0 m high. How far will it have fallen
after 1.0 s, 2.0 s, and 3.0 s? Neglect air resistance.
14. A stone is thrown vertically upward with a speed of s m 0 . 12 from the edge of a cliff
70.0 m high .
(a) How much later does it reach the bottom of the cliff?
(b) What is its speed just before hitting?
(c) What total distance did it travel?
15. A person throws a ball upward into the air with an initial velocity of 15 m/s. calculate:
a) How high it goes.
b) How long the ball is in the air before it comes back to his hand
c) How much time it takes to reach its maximum height.
d) The velocity of the ball when it returns to the throwers hand.
e) At what time t the ball passes a point 8.0 m above a persons hand.
16. A tiger leaps horizontally from a 6.5-m-high rock with a speed of . s m 5 . 3 How far from
the base of the rock will she land?
17. A ball is thrown horizontally from the roof of a building 45.0 m tall and lands 24.0 m
from the base. What was the balls initial speed?
18. A football is kicked at ground level with a speed of s m 0 . 18 at an angle of 35.0 to
the horizontal. How much later does it hit the ground?
19. A brick dropped from a roof hits the ground 3 seconds later. How high (in m) was the
roof?
20. A ball was thrown straight up at 25.4 m/s then caught at the same place it was
released. How many seconds was it in the air?
21. How high above its release point did the ball in the previous question go?
22. A stone is thrown straight up. To reach a height of 4.28 m above its release point,
what must its initial speed be in m/s?
23. A stone is thrown straight up at 6.88 m/s. What is the stone's acceleration in m/s/s at
the top of its rise?











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CHAPTER 3
PROBLEMS
Part A
1. If the acceleration of an object is zero, are no forces acting on it? Explain.
2. Only one force acts on an object. Can the object have zero acceleration? Can it have
zero velocity? Explain.
3. When a golf ball is dropped to the pavement, it bounces back up. (a) Is a force
needed to make it bounce back up? (b) If so, what exerts the force?
4. Why might your foot hurt if you kick a heavy desk or a wall?
5. When an object falls freely under the influence of gravity there is a net force mg
exerted on it by the Earth. Yet by Newtons third law the object exerts an equal and
opposite force on the Earth. Why doesnt the Earth move?
6. When you stand still on the ground, how large a force does the ground exert on you?
Why doesnt this force make you rise up into the air?

Part B
Newtons Laws, Gravitational Force, Normal Force
1. What force is needed to accelerate a child whose mass is 55kg at 1.15m/s
2

2. A net force of 265 N accelerates a bike and rider at 2.50m/s
2
. What is the mass of
the bike and rider together?
3. How much tension must a rope withstand if it is used to accelerate a 850-kg car
horizontally along a frictionless surface at 1.20m/s
2

4. What is the weight of a 75-kg astronaut (a) on Earth, (b) on the Moon where
earth moon
g
6
1
g ~ (c) on Mars
2
Mars
s m 7 3 g / . = (d) in outer space traveling with
constant velocity?
5. What average force is required to stop an 1100-kg car in 7.0 s if the car is traveling at
110km/hr.
6. What average force is needed to accelerate a 5.00-gram bullet from rest to s m 130
over a distance of 0.800 m along the barrel of a rifle?

Newtons Laws and Vectors
7. Two boxes are connected by a lightweight cord and are resting on a table. The boxes
have masses of 12.0 kg and 10.0 kg. A horizontal force F
p
of 40.0 N is applied by a
person to the 10.0 kg box, as shown in Figure 3.8. Find:
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a) the acceleration of each box, and
b) the tension in the cord.





8. A box weighing 77.0 N rests on a table. A rope tied to the box runs vertically upward
over a pulley and a weight is hung from the other end (Figure 3.9) Determine the
force that the table exerts on the box if the weight hanging on the other side of the
pulley weighs (a) 30.0 N, (b) 60.0 N, and (c) 90.0 N.






9. A 650-N force acts in a northwesterly direction. A second 650-N force must be
exerted in what direction so that the resultant of the two forces points westward?
Illustrate your answer with a vector diagram.



10. A 32.5 kg box is suspended by two wires as shown in Figure 3.10. The box is in
equilibrium.
a) Draw the free body diagram on the box.
b) Find the tension in wire A.
c) Find the tension in wire B.



11. Marlene is to walk across a high wire strung horizontally between two buildings 10.0
m apart. The sag in the rope when she is at the midpoint is 10.0 as shown in Fig.
(3.11) if her mass is 50.0 kg, what is the tension in the rope at this point?



F
p
= 40.0 N
m
1
= 10. kg
m
2
= 12. 0 kg
Figure 3.8
Figure 3.9
10
o

Figure 3.11
Wire B
Wire A
45
o

65
o

32.5 kg
Figure 3.10
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12. On a weekend holiday, Dr. Ahmad pushes a 14.0-kg lawn mower at constant speed
with a force of N .0 87 F = directed along the handle, which is at an angle of 45.0
to the horizontal Figure (3.12). (a) Draw the free-body diagram showing all forces
acting on the mower. Calculate (b) the horizontal friction force on the mower, then (c)
the normal force exerted vertically upward on the mower by the ground. (d) What
force must the person exert on the lawn mower to accelerate it from rest to s m 5 . 1 in
2.5 seconds, assuming the same friction force?





13. A girl is seated on a gunny sack. Two boys Azlan and Baiza pulls the gunny sack to
the end line marked on a grass field during one of the game at a family day program
as shown in Figure (3.13). The sum of the forces
A
F and
B
F exerted on the gunny
sack with the girl by the horizontal ropes attached to it is parallel to the line L, and
75N.
A
= F Determine
B
F and the magnitude of .
B A
F F +




14. Figure (3.14) shows a block ( )
1
mass m on a smooth horizontal surface, connected by a
thin cord that passes over a pulley to a second block ( ),
2
m which hangs vertically. (a)
Draw a free-body diagram for each block, showing the force of gravity on each, the
force (tension) exerted by the cord, and any normal force. (b) Apply Newtons second
law to find formulas for the acceleration of the system and for the tension in the cord.
Ignore friction and the masses of the pulley and cord.






F
45
o

Figure 3.12
m
1
m2
Figure 3.14
Figure 3.13
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Newtons Laws with Friction; Inclines
15. If the coefficient of kinetic friction between a 35-kg crate and the floor is 0.30, what
horizontal force is required to move the crate at a steady speed across the floor?
What horizontal force is required if
k
is zero?
16. A force of 48.0 N is required to start a 5.0-kg box moving across a horizontal
concrete floor. (a) What is the coefficient of static friction between the box and the
floor? (b) If the 48.0-N force continues, the box accelerates at . s m 70 . 0
2
What is the
coefficient of kinetic friction?
17. What is the maximum acceleration a car can undergo if the coefficient of static
friction between the tires and the ground is 0.80?
18. A 15.0-kg box is released on a 32 incline and accelerates down the incline at
. s m 30 . 0
2
Find the friction force impeding its motion. What is the coefficient of kinetic
friction?
19. A car can decelerate at
2
s m 80 . 4 without skidding when coming to rest on a level
road. What would its deceleration be if the road were inclined at 13 uphill? Assume
the same static friction coefficient.
20. A box is given a push so that it slides across the floor. How far will it go, given that
the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.20 and the push imparts an initial speed of
? s m 0 . 4
21. A child slides down a slide with a 28 incline, and at the bottom her speed is precisely
half what it would have been if the slide had been frictionless. Calculate the
coefficient of kinetic friction between the slide and the child.


22. The carton shown in Fig.( 3.15) lies on a plane tilted at an angle 0 . 22 = u to the
horizontal, with . 12 . 0
k
= (a) Determine the acceleration of the carton as it slides
down the plane. (b) If the carton starts from rest 9.30 m up the plane from its base,
what will be the cartons speed when it reaches the bottom of the incline?






y

X


Figure 3.15
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23. An 18.0-kg box is released on a 37.0 incline and accelerates down the incline at
. s m 270 . 0
2
Find the friction force impeding its motion. How large is the coefficient of
kinetic friction?
24. A box is to be placed on the wall at the height of 1.5 m above the floor. The workers
have a portable ramp that they plan to use to help them push the box up and into
position. The mass of the box is 600 kg, the coefficient of static friction along the
incline is
s
=0.4 and the coefficient of kinetic friction is
k
=0.3. The ramp form an
angle = 15

above the horizontal (see Figure 3.16).

a) Find the minimum applied force parallel to the incline needed to start the box
moving up the incline.
b) If the workers continue to push with this same force, what is the boxs
acceleration?





25. A small box is held in place against a rough wall by someone pushing on it with a
force directed upward at 28 above the horizontal. The coefficients of static and
kinetic friction between the box and wall are 0.40 and 0.30, respectively. The box
slides down unless the applied force has magnitude 13 N. What is the mass of the
box?

Figure 3.16
=15

1.5 m