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Torque Worksheet: Class Set - Do Not Write On This Paper - Return To Teacher at End On Period!!

This document contains 8 practice problems about calculating torque, work, and mechanical advantage involving levers, pulleys, ramps, and other simple machines. The problems include calculating torque produced by perpendicular forces on wrenches of different lengths, determining the distance a child should sit from a see-saw fulcrum to balance another child, and finding the minimum force needed to loosen a nut using a lug wrench.

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Torque Worksheet: Class Set - Do Not Write On This Paper - Return To Teacher at End On Period!!

This document contains 8 practice problems about calculating torque, work, and mechanical advantage involving levers, pulleys, ramps, and other simple machines. The problems include calculating torque produced by perpendicular forces on wrenches of different lengths, determining the distance a child should sit from a see-saw fulcrum to balance another child, and finding the minimum force needed to loosen a nut using a lug wrench.

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Class set – Do not write on this paper – return to teacher at end on period!!

Torque Worksheet

1. a. Calculate the torque produced by a 75-N perpendicular force at the end of a 0.2-m long wrench.

b. Calculate the torque produced by the same 75-N force when a pipe extends the length of the
wrench to 0.5 m.

2. Two children are sitting on a see-saw, as shown. Calculate the distance the 500-N child should sit
from the fulcrum in the center (pivot) of the lever to balance the see-saw.

3. Suppose that a meter stick is supported at the center, and a 40-N block is hung at the 80-cm mark.
Another block of unknown weight just balances the system when it is hung at the 10-cm mark.
What is the weight of the second block?
Class set – Do not write on this paper – return to teacher at end on period!!

4. What is the mass of the rock shown in the figure?

5. What is the mass of the meter stick shown in the figure (Hint: 25% of the meter stick’s mass is to
the left of the fulcrum and 75% is to the right)?

6. If the torque required to loosen a nut on the wheel of a car has a magnitude of 40.0 N-m, what
minimum force must be exerted by a mechanic at the end of a 0.30-m wrench to loosen the
nut?
Class set – Do not write on this paper – return to teacher at end on period!!

Work, Torque, and Simple Machine Practice Problems


1. A person lifts a 4.5 kg cement block up a vertical distance of 1.2 meters and then carries it horizontally for 7.3 meters.
Calculate the total work done by the person as he carried the block.

2. A flight attendant pulls her 70 N suitcase for 253 m along the airport floor. She exerts a force of 40 N at an angle of
520 above the horizontal.

a) Calculate the work she does on the suitcase.

b) How much work is done on the suitcase by the friction between it and the floor?

c) What is the coefficient of friction between the suitcase and the floor?

3. If the torque required to loosen a nut that holds a wheel on a car has a magnitude of 58 N*m, what force must be
exerted at the end of a 35 cm lug wrench to loosen the nut when the angle of the wrench is 560?

4. A boy who weighs 800 N and his 475 N little sister are 3.5 meters apart from each other on a balanced see-saw.

a) What is the mass of the little sister?

b) How far away is the little sister sitting from the center of the see-saw?

5. A lumber jack is using his axe to split logs for firewood. The axe penetrates 12 cm into the wood, but the wood only
splits half a centimeter. If he exerted 500 N of force on the axe, how much force did the axe exert to split the wood?

6. In the “Pink Fuzzy Bunny, Blue Cloud, No Taxes Physics World”, a pink fuzzy bunny can use a lever to lift a 3 kg carrot
0.75 m onto the back of his truck to take to the farmers’ market. However, he has to move his end of the lever down
1.2 m.

a) What force did he have to use to lift the carrot?

b) What is the IMA of the lever?


Class set – Do not write on this paper – return to teacher at end on period!!

7. An ideal ramp is set up to help lift a 15 kg box up a 3 m flight of stairs. The ramp itself is 8 m long.

a) How much work is required to lift the box without using the ramp?

b) What is the IMA of the ramp?

c) How much force does the person using the ramp need to use?

d) How much work does the person do to push the box up the ramp?

8. A pulley used to lift a 20 kg up 2 m while the operator pulls in 4 meters of rope. Unfortunately, the operator pays lots
of property, sales, pay roll, income (state and federal), and cell phone taxes (i.e., he lives in the “Real World), so his
pulley is only 90% efficient.

a) What is the IMA of his pulley?

b) What is the AMA?

c) What force did he need to exert on the pulley to lift the box?

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