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TUTORIAL
CHAPTER 5: NEWTON’S LAW OF MOTION

APRIL 2007

1. State Newton's Second Law.

2. A car of mass 800 kg traveling at 30 m/s is brought to rest after 50 m. Find the average retarding
force acting on the car.
3. 12 kg box is released from rest from the top of an incline that is 5.0 m long and makes an angle of
40 ° to the horizontal. A 60 N friction force impedes the motion of the box as shown in FIGURE 2.

Figure 2
i. Draw a free body diagram for the box.
ii. What is the acceleration of the box?
iii. How long will it take to reach the bottom of the incline?

Oct 2007

4. A dockworker loading crates on a ship finds that a 20 kg crate, initially at rest on a horizontal
surface, requires a 75 N horizontal force to set it in motion. However, after the crate is in motion,
a horizontal force of 60 N is required to keep it moving with a constant speed. Find the coefficient
of static and kinetic friction between crate and floor.

5. The coefficient of static friction between a 3.00 kg block and the 35.0° incline plane is 0.300.
What minimum force must be applied to the block parallel to the incline to prevent the block from
sliding down the incline plane?

April 2008

6. A net force of 10 N accelerates an object at 5.0 m/s2. What is the net force required to accelerate
the same object at 1.0 m/s2?

7. A boy pulls a box of toys on a smooth horizontal floor with a force of 100 N in a direction of 37.0°
above the horizontal. If the mass of the box and the toys is 40.0 kg,
i. what is the normal force on the box?
ii. what is the acceleration of the box?

Oct 2008
8. An elevator of mass 1000 kg is supported by a cable that can sustain a force of 14000 N. What is
the greatest upward acceleration that can be given to the elevator without breaking the cable?

9. A 5 kg block at rest on a horizontal surface, is pushed up along a 20° inclined plane by a constant
force of 30 N, parallel to the plane. If a frictional force of 10 N acts on the block, find the
i. normal force on the block
ii. acceleration of the block
iii. coefficient of friction between the block and plane.

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April 2009

10. Refer to Figure 2.

i. What is the average power needed to move the block from A to B in 2.0 s if there is no
friction? (Ans: 25 Watt)
ii. Refer to Figure 2. Find the frictional force acting on the 6 kg block if the surface is rough
and its coefficient of friction is 0.02. (Ans: 12 N)
iii. Find the net work done by the force, F in order to move a displacement of 5.0 m on the
same rough surface, whose coefficient of friction is 0.02. (Ans: 44 J)

11. A 4.0 N force acts for 3.0 s on an object. The force suddenly increases to 15.0 N and acts for one
more second. What impulse was imparted by these forces to the object? (Ans: 27 Ns)

12. Refer to Figure 4. Label all the forces acting on each mass and also the direction of the
acceleration of the system. If the mass A = 0.6 kg and mass B = 0.4 kg, what is the magnitude of
the tension in the string and the acceleration of the system?

(Ans: 4.7N, 2 m/s2)

13. A block is on a frictionless table on Earth. The block accelerates at 5.3 m/s2 when a 80 N
horizontal force is applied to it. If the block and table are set up on the moon and acceleration due
to gravity at the surface of the moon is 1.62 m/s2, the weight of the block on the moon is _____.
(Ans: 24 N)

Oct 2009
14. A 385 kg car is parked on a 10.0° inclined road with the handbrake disengaged. With what
acceleration would the car slide down, assuming the road is frictionless?

15. Determine the acceleration of the system shown in Figure 3, assuming the blocks start from rest
and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.20.

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April 2010

16. What is the acceleration of the system shown in Figure 2 if the coefficient of kinetic friction is
0.10? Assume that the blocks start from rest and that m 1 = 5.0 kg.

(Ans: 2.1 m/s2)

Oct 2010

17. A 10 kg box sitting on a horizontal surface is pulled by a 5.0 N force. A 3.0 N friction force retards
the motion. What is the acceleration of the object?

18. The carton of mass 4.0 kg lies on a plane tilted at an angle 6 = 22° to the horizontal, with µk= 0.12
as shown in Figure 2.

i. Draw a free body diagram of the system.

ii. Determine the acceleration of the carton as it slides down the plane.
iii. If the carton starts from rest at 9.30 m up the plane from its base, what will be the carton's
speed when it reaches the bottom of the incline?

April 2011

19. A force of 70.0 N is exerted at an angle of 30° above the horizontal on a block of mass 8.00 kg
that is resting on a table as shown in Figure 1. What is the magnitude of the normal force acting
on the block? (Ans: 43.48 N)

20. A 2.0 kg object is placed on a rough plane inclined at 30° with the horizontal as shown in Figure
2. It is released from rest and accelerates at 4.0 m/s 2. Calculate the frictional force acting on the
object. (Ans: 1.81N)

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Oct 2010

21. A 10 kg mass rests on a horizontal frictionless surface. A horizontal force of 5 N is applied to the
mass. After the force has been applied for 1 s, the velocity of the mass is __.
(Ans:0.5 m/s)
22. An object which weighs 10000 N is at rest on a frictionless 30° inclined plane as shown in Figure
2.

The object is held in place by a light strong cable parallel to the plane. The magnitude of the
tension in the cable, T is ___. (Ans: 5000 N)

23. A bullet of mass 0.04 kg moving with a speed of 100 m/s enters a wooden block and is stopped
after a distance of 0.5 m. The resistance force exerted by the block on the bullet is ___.
(Ans: 400 N)

April 2011

24. Starting from rest, a 5.0 kg block slides 2.50 m down a rough 30.0° inclined plane. The coefficient
of kinetic friction between the block and the incline is µ = 0.436. Determine the work done by the
frictional force.
(Ans: -46.3J)

Sept 2011

25. A block of mass 15.0 kg is pulled along a rough horizontal surface by a constant applied force of
45.0 N and at an angle of 30° to the horizontal, as indicated in Figure 4. The acceleration of the
block is 1.2 m/s2.

i. Determine the normal reaction force exerted by the surface on the block.
ii. Determine the coefficient of kinetic friction, \x between the block and the surface.
(Ans: 124.5N; 0.17)
Mac 2012

26. The three forces, X, Y and Z shown in Figure 1 act on an object. What is the fourth force that
must act on the object so that the object does not accelerate? (Ans: (1 i – 5 j)N)

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27. A 25 kg box is released on a 30° incline and accelerates down the incline at 0.50 m/s 2.
i. Find the friction force slowing down its motion
ii. What is the coefficient of kinetic friction?
(Ans: 110 N; 0.52)
Oct 2012

28. In a physics experiment, a 6.00-kg box is pushed across a flat table by a horizontal force, F.
i. If the box is moving at a constant speed of 0.350 m/s and coefficient of kinetic friction is
0.12, what is the magnitude of F?
ii. What is the magnitude of F if the box is speeding up with a constant acceleration of 0.18
m/s2?
Mac 2013

29. Two masses are connected by a string which goes over an ideal pulley as shown in Figure 2.
Block m1 has a mass of 5.0 kg and can slide along a horizontal surface. Block m 2 has a mass of
4.3 kg. Calculate the acceleration of the blocks plane. (Ans: 4.54 m/s2)

Sept 2013

30. A towing car of mass 1000 kg, works at a constant rate of 18kW and is towing a trailer of mass
500 kg up a hill as in Figure 1 where sinθ = 0.05. At the instant when speed of both vehicles is
9.0 m/s, the resistance to the motion of the car is 300 N and they are both accelerating at 0.30
m/s2. Compute the tension in the tow-bar and the resistance to the motion of the trailer for that
instant.

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(Ans: 910 N; 515 N)

Mac 2014

31. State and give an example of Newton’s third law of motion.

32. Discuss static frictional force and kinetic frictional force.
33. Figure 3 below shows a 20 kg block on a smooth inclined plane being pushed up by a force of
100 N.

Figure 3
i. Sketch a free body diagram of Figure 3.
ii. Find the normal force acting on the block.
iii. Determine the acceleration of the block. (Ans: 186.6N; 1.97 m/s2)

Sept 2014

34. A block of mass 6.0 kg is pulled along a smooth horizontal surface by a horizontal string. If the
block reaches a speed of 25 m/s in 5 s from rest, calculate the tension in the string.
(Ans: 30 N)
35. A pulley system shown in Figure 3 below, consists of a 8.0 kg load hanging over a smooth pulley
and a 12.0 kg wooden block is places on a rough table surface.
i. Sketch the free body diagram to show all the forces acting on the 12.0 kg and 8.0 kg
objects respectively.
ii. If the system is released from rest, it will accelerates at 2.5 m/s 2. Determine the
coefficient of friction between the wooden block and the rough table. (Ans: 0.24)

Mac 2015

36. Determine the acceleration of the system shown in Figure 2, assuming the blocks start from rest
and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.20.

37. An 800 kg sport car accelerates at 70 m/s2 on a highway when its engine produces a force of 60
000 N. Calculate the coefficient of kinetic friction between tires and road surfaces.

Sept 2015

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38. A 1100 kg car travels on a straight highway with a speed of 30 m/s. the driver sees a red light
ahead and applies the brakes until the car stops, which exerts a constant braking force of 4000 N.
Compute the deceleration of the car. (Ans: -3.6 m/s2)

39. Figure 3 shows an object M which has a mass of 10 kg. If the inclined surface is rough with the
coefficient of friction between the object and the incline plane is 0.2. As the object M slides down
the incline:

i. Sketch all the forces acting on object M,

ii. Calculate the magnitude of acceleration of object M. (Ans: 3.21 m/s2)

Mac 2016

40. Block A of mass 30 kg is at rest on a 40° inclined rough plane with coefficient of friction 0.15. The
block is attached by a light string to block B with a mass of 40 kg, as shown in Figure 3.

i. Compute the tension in the string. (Ans: 392N)

ii. Draw the free body diagram for block A and block B.
iii. Determine the frictional force exerted on block A. (Ans: 33.78N)

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