EXAMINATION IN MECHANICS 15.

A man standing at a window 5 meters tall watches a

falling ball pass by the window in 0.3 second. From
Direction: Solve the following problems correctly. BOX how high above the top of the window was the ball
the final answer on your scratch paper. Avoid rounding released?
off in between computations for high accuracy of the 16. The first derivative of kinetic energy with respect to
final answer. velocity is?
17. A particles position (in inches) along the x-axis after t
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seconds of travel is given by the equation x = 24t 2 –
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1. A load of 100 lb is hung from the middle of the rope t + 10. What is the particle’s average velocity during
which is stretched between two rigid walls 30 ft the first 4 seconds of travel?
apart. Due to the load, the rope sags 4 feet in the 18. A projectile is fired from cannon with an initial
middle. Determine the tension in the rope. velocity of 1000 m/s and at an angle of 32o from the
2. What is the magnitude of the resultant force of the horizontal. What distance from the cannon will the
two forces 200 N at 20o and 400 N at 144o? projectile strike the ground if the point of impact is
3. A boat can travel 8 miles per hour in still water. What 1500 m below the point of release?
is its velocity with respect to the shore if it heads 35 o 19. How many degrees of freedom does a coin rolling
East of North? on the ground have?
4. A block weighing 500 kN rest on a ramp inclined at 20. A car start from rest and moves with a constant
25o with the horizontal. The force tending to move acceleration of 6 m/s2. What is the speed of the car
the block down the ramp is? after 4 s?
5. Assume the three force vectors intersect at a single 21. A bicycle moves with a constant deceleration of -2
point. What is the magnitude of the resultant force m/s2. If the initial velocity of the bike is 4 m/s, how far
vector R? does it travel in 3 s?
F1 = i + 3j + 4k ; F2 = 2i + 7j – k ; F3 = -i +4j + 2k 22. A car starting from rest moves with constant
6. It is a branch of mechanics that deals with the acceleration of 15 km/hr2 for 1 hour, then
bodies at rest. decelerates at a constant speed of -7.5 km/hr2 until it
7. Branch of mechanics that relates the force acting on comes to a stop. Most nearly how far has it travel?
a body to its mass and acceleration. 23. A train with a top speed of 75 kph cannot accelerate
8. A motion of a particle or body without consideration or decelerate faster than 1.2 m/s2. What is the
of the forces causing the motion. minimum distance between two trains to be able to
9. A simple projectile is fired up the inclined plane at an reach its top speed?
initial velocity of 15 m/s. The plane is making an 24. A 3 kg block is moving at a speed of 5 m/s. Find the
angle of 30° from the horizontal. If the projectile was force required to bring the block to stop in 8x10 -4
fired at 30° from the inclined plane, compute the seconds.
maximum height h measured perpendicular to the 25. A block with a mass of 150 kg slides down a
incline that is reached by the projectile. Neglect air frictionless wedge with a slope of 40o. The wedge is
resistance. moving horizontally in the opposite direction at a
10. A bullet is fired at an initial velocity of 150 m/s and constant velocity of 4.9 m/s. What is the absolute
an angle of 56° at the top of a 120 m tall building. speed of the block 2 seconds after it is released
Neglecting air resistance, determine the maximum from rest?
height above the level ground that can be reached 26. A 1000 kg car is travelling down a 25o slope. At the
by the bullet. instant that the speed of the car is 13 m/s, the driver
11. Refer to problem 10, Determine the time for the applies the brakes. What constant force parallel to
bullet to hit the ground. the road must be generated by the brakes if the car
12. Refer to problem 10, Determine the velocity with is to stop in 90 m?
which the bullet will hit the ground. 27. A ball is dropped onto a solid floor from an initial
13. A flywheel is rotating at a constant rate of 2400 rpm. height 7 m. If the coefficient of restitution is 0.93,
At what rate in rad/s2 must its motion be retarded to how high will the ball rebound?
bring it to rest in 300 revolutions? 28. What is the natural frequency in rad/s of an
14. At what rpm is the ferris wheel turning when the oscillating body whose period of oscillation is 1.8 s?
riders feel weightlessness or zero gravity every time 29. It is the contact resistance by one body when the
each rider is at the topmost part of the wheel 9 m in second body tends to move or move past the first
radius? body.
30. The ratio of the relative velocities of colliding bodies 44. A 12 kg aluminium box is dropped from rest onto a
after impact to their relative velocities before impact. large wooden beam. The box travel 0.2 m before
31. A rope passes over a fixed sheave. The two rope contacting the beam. After impact, the box bounces
ends are parallel. A fixed load on one end of the 0.05 m above the beam’s surface. What impulse
rope is supported by a constant force on the other does the beam impact on the box?
end. The coefficient of friction between the rope and 45. A bullet of mass 25 grams is fired and strikes a 2 kg
the sheave is 0.30. What is the maximum ratio of block resting on a frictionless surface with a velocity
tensile forces in the rope ends? of 600 m/s. If the block is attached to the spring
32. A 2000 kg car pulls a 500 kg trailer. The car and (k=30 kN/m). How long will the spring be
trailer accelerates from 50 kph to 75 kph at a rate of compressed until the block and the bullet are
1 m/s2. What linear impulse does the car impart on brought to stop?
the trailer? 46. A quantity that possesses magnitude and direction
33. A 550 kg mass initially at rest is acted upon by a and obeys the parallelogram law for addition.
force of 50et N. What is the acceleration of the mass 47. A force may be moved anywhere along its line of
at t=4 s? action without changing its external effects on a rigid
34. Refer to problem 33; determine the speed of the body.
mass at t=4s. 48. How many turns of ropes around a capstan are
35. Refer to problem 33; determine the displacement of needed for the 60-N force to resist the 9000-N pull of
the mass at t=4 s. a docked ship? The static coefficient of friction
36. A spring has a constant of 50 N/m. The spring is between the capstan and the rope is 0.20.
hung vertically, and a mass is attached to its end. 49. If the radius of the earth is approximately 4 times the
The spring end displaces 30 cm from its equilibrium radius of the moon, and if the mass of the moon is
position. The same mass is removed from the first 1/82 of that of the earth, calculate the weight of a
spring and attached to the end of the second pound mass on the surface of the moon.
(different) spring, and the displacement is 25 cm. 50. A hollow cylinder with radii 1.6 m and 1.5 m
What is the spring constant of the second spring? respectively is placed at the top of a 20o inclined
37. A cannonball of mass 10 kg is fired from cannon of plane. When released, it freely rolls down. What will
mass 250 kg. The initial velocity of the cannonball be its linear speed at the foot of the incline which is
277.8 mph. All of the cannon’s recoil is absorbed by 3 m below the initial position of the cylinder?
a spring with spring constant of 520 N/cm. What is
the maximum recoil distance of the cannon? END…
38. With a starting speed of 30 kph at point A, a car GOD BLESS!
accelerates uniformly. After 18 minutes, it reaches
point B, 21 km from A. Find the acceleration of the
car in m/s2.
39. A car travels with an initial velocity of 36 kph. If it is
decelerating at a rate of 3 m/s2, how far in meters
does it travel before stopping?
40. A ball is thrown vertically into the air at 120 m/s.
After 3 seconds, another ball is thrown vertically.
What should be the second ball’s velocity in order to
pass the first ball at 100 meters from the ground?
41. A man in a hot air balloon drops a sack of diamonds
at a height of 160 m. If the balloon is rising 18 m/s,
find the highest point reached by the diamonds.
42. A falling ball moves in accordance to the equation
S = 2 t3 + ½ t2 + 32 t. Determine its acceleration at
time t = 2 sec.
43. What is the minimum distance can a truck slide on a
horizontal asphalt road if it is travelling at 25 m/s?
The coefficient of sliding friction between asphalt
and rubber tire is at 0.60. The weight of the truck is
8500 kg.