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Physics 1

Problem Set 4: Newton’s Laws of Motion

1. What will be the acceleration of a 2.5 kg block of wood if a net force of 20.0 N is applied on it?

2. The only force acting on a 12.0 kg object is 54 N. What is the magnitude of acceleration?

3. What is the net force acting on an object with mass of 5.5 kg and accelerating at 6.0 m/s2 due south?

4. A 1.0 kg object is decelerating at 7.5 m/s2 while moving to the East. What is the net force?

5. What should be the mass of an object in order for it to accelerate at 4.00 cm/s2 under the influence of
an 11.0 dyne force?

6. An object with mass of 15.0 slug is influenced by two outside force. One is 47.0 lb upward
and the other is 23.0 lb downward. What is its acceleration in ft/s2?

7. A rock with mass of 161 lb is accelerating at 21.0 ft/s2. What is the magnitude of the net force acting
on it?

8. Three forces are acting on a meteoroid; 32 N due north, 19 N due south, and 13 N due south. What
is the acceleration of the asteroid?

9. A framed painting weighs 220 N. The two wires supporting it equally make an angle of 120o with
each other. What are the tensions in the wire?

10. A 50.0-kg boy hangs from the center of a clothesline and distorts the line so that it makes 20.0o
angles with the horizontal at each end. Find the tension in the clothesline.

11. A block on an inclined plane just begins to slip if the inclination of the plane is 50o.
(a) What is the coefficient of static friction?
(b) If the block has a mass of 2-kg, what is the actual frictional force just before it begins to slip?
12. Determine the horizontal force needed to accelerate a 25.0-kg grocery cart from rest to 0.45 m/s
in 1.30 s if the coefficient of friction between the cart and the floor is 0.15.

13. A 100.0-N table is pushed by a horizontal force of 40.0 N for 3.00 s. What is the velocity of the table
at the end of 3.00 s? The coefficient of kinetic friction between the floor and table is 0.250.

14. A 0.50 kg figurine is being pulled across the surface of a table by a horizontal string. The coefficient
of kinetic friction between the figurine and the table is 0.70.
(a) What is the tension on the string if the figurine is moving at constant speed?
(b) What is the tension on the string if the figurine accelerates at 4.0 m/s2?

15. A 20.0-kg wagon is pulled by John along the level ground by a rope inclined at 30o above the
horizontal. The coefficient of friction is 0.31. John wishes to accelerate the wagon from 3.0 m/s to
5.0 m/s in 5.0 s. What force must John apply?

16. A 12.0-kg box is released from the top of an incline that is 5.00 m long and makes an angle of 40o to
the horizontal. A 60.0 N friction force impedes the motion of the box.
(a) What will be the acceleration of the box?
(b) How long will it take to reach the bottom of the incline?

17. How large a force parallel to a 30º incline is needed to give a 5.00-kg box an acceleration of
0.200 m/s2 up the incline
(a) if friction is negligible?
(b) if the coefficient of friction is 0.30?

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Physics 1

18. You slide a 50.0-kg trunk up a 30.0o inclined plane with a constant velocity by exerting a force of
300.0 N parallel to the inclined plane.
(a) What is the component of the trunk’s weight parallel to the plane?
(b) What is the size and direction of the friction force?
(c) What is the coefficient of friction?
(d) If the trunk is to be slide up at acceleration of 2 m/s2, what force must you apply?

19. An object weighing 2.5 kg is falling under the influence of its own gravity. At the moment its speed is
12.0 m/s, an unknown force with magnitude of 34.5 N acts to oppose the gravity.
(a) What is the acceleration of the object?
(b) What is the velocity of the object 1.5 s after the unknown force started to act?
(c) What is the velocity of the object 3.0 s after the unknown force started to act?
(d) What is the velocity of the object 5.0 s after the unknown force started to act?

20. A 20.0-kg crate hangs at the end of a long rope and the rope can move it up or down. Find its
acceleration when the tension in the rope is (a) 250 N, (b) 150 N, (c) 0.00 N, and (d) 196 N.

21. Two decorative orbs are hanging on the ceiling as shown at the right.
What are the tensions of rope 1 and rope 2? Rope1
0.5 kg

Rope2

1.0 kg

22. If you are pushing a 20.0 kg block of ice with 55 N of force due east, what force does it exert on you?

23. Three wooden blocks are moving together with constant velocity across the table under the influence
of an outside force FA pushing the 700.0 slug block. If the coefficient of kinetic friction between wood
and the material that makes-up the table’s surface is 0.4:

FA 700.0
slug 600.0
slug 500.0
slug

(a) What is the magnitude of outside force FA?


(b) What is the magnitude of push exerted by 700.0 kg block to 600.0 kg block?
(c) What is the magnitude of push exerted by 600.0 kg block on 500.0
kg block?

24. Two crates are being lifted by a machine on top of a mountain as shown 4,440 N
in the figure at right. The mass of the lower crate is twice the mass of the
upper crate, the acceleration of the crates is 5.0 m/s2 upward, and the
tension along the cable between the upper crate and the machine M
is 4,440 N.
(a) What is the mass of the lower crate?
(b) What is the mass of the upper crate?
(c) What is the tension exerted by the lower crate on the upper crate? 2M
(d) What is the tension exerted by the upper crate on the lower crate?
5.0 m/s2

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