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    1. The gardener does 141 N-m of work pushing the lawnmower 8.5 m at a 45° angle. 2. The maximum velocity of a 5 g pellet shot from a toy gun with a spring compressed 20 cm is calculated. 3. The maximum compression of a spring from an impact of a 4.5 kg crate moving at 2.0 m/s is calculated.

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    1. The gardener does 141 N-m of work pushing the lawnmower 8.5 m at a 45° angle. 2. The maximum velocity of a 5 g pellet shot from a toy gun with a spring compressed 20 cm is calculated. 3. The maximum compression of a spring from an impact of a 4.5 kg crate moving at 2.0 m/s is calculated.

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    1. The gardener does 141 N-m of work pushing the lawnmower 8.5 m at a 45° angle. 2. The maximum velocity of a 5 g pellet shot from a toy gun with a spring compressed 20 cm is calculated. 3. The maximum compression of a spring from an impact of a 4.5 kg crate moving at 2.0 m/s is calculated.

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    CH.

    4 Review
    1. Calculate the amount of work done for a gardener pushes down the handle of a lawnmower at an angle of 45°
    with an applied force of 141 N, while pushing the mower 8.5 m along level ground.
    2. A 5.0 g pellet is placed in the barrel of a toy gun and is propelled by a spring of force constant 50 N/m that
    has been compressed 20 cm and then released. Calculate the maximum velocity of the pellet when shot
    horizontally.
    3. A linear elastic spring can be compressed 10.0 cm by an applied force of 5.0 N. A 4.5 kg crate of apples,
    moving at 2.0 m/s, collides with this spring, as shown. What will be the maximum compression of the spring?

    4. Calculate the work done by a horse that exerts an applied force of 100 N on a sleigh, if the harness makes an
    angle of 30° with the ground, and the sleigh moves 30 m across a flat, level ice surface.

    5. A 1000 kg roller coaster, with its passengers, starts from rest at point A on a frictionless track whose profile is
    shown in the diagram.
    (a) What is its maximum speed?
    (b) With what speed does the roller coaster arrive at point E?
    (c) What constant braking force would have to be applied to the roller coaster at point E, to bring it to rest in a
    horizontal distance of 5.0 m?

    6. A Hooke’s Law spring is compressed 10 cm by an applied force of 50 N. This compressed spring is then used
    to project a 20 g marble straight up into the air. To what maximum height does the marble rise?
    7. A 2.0 kg mass is placed against a spring of force constant 800 N/m, which has been compressed 0.22 m, as
    illustrated. The spring is released, and the object moves along the horizontal, frictionless surface and up the
    slope.

    Calculate:
    (a) the maximum elastic potential energy of the spring
    (b) the maximum velocity of the mass
    (c) the maximum vertical height of the mass, up the slope
    CH.4 Review Answer Section
    1. ANS:

    (a)

    Only the horizontal component of the applied force does work on the lawnmower.
    2. ANS:

    3.

    For the collision:

    4. ANS:
    In this problem, the force exerted by the horse makes an angle of 30° with the horizontal direction of the
    displacement. One solution involves resolving the 100 N force exerted by the horse into horizontal and
    vertical components, as shown.
    Since the horizontal component, is in the same direction as the displacement, the work done by it can be
    calculated as

    The vertical component, is at a 90° angle with respect to the displacement. To determine the work done
    by this component, we again use the vector dot product.

    Of course we could just write it down directly as:

    5. ANS:
    (a) The total energy of the roller coaster-Earth system remains constant and is equal to the gravitational
    potential energy at A (take Eg = 0 at ground level).

    The kinetic energy, and hence the velocity, will be a maximum at the point where the gravitational potential
    energy is a minimum (i.e., at point D).
    (b)

    (c) The brakes do work on the roller coaster to reduce its kinetic energy from 3.9  104 J to zero.

    The negative sign indicates a force in the opposite direction to motion, as a frictional braking force would be.
    6. ANS:
    After the spring is released, the total energy of the spring-marble-Earth system remains constant. Let the
    height of the marble, at release, be the zero level of gravitational potential energy.
    Just before release:

    Then, as the marble reaches its maximum height,


    Note that this distance, being positive, is above the starting point. The spring will have expanded 0.10 m to its
    normal length, so that the marble is 12.7 m above the top of the now-uncompressed spring.

    7.(a)

    (b)

    (c)

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