Questions 3
Questions 3
Questions 3
1. An aircraft executes a horizontal loop at a speed of 360 km/h with its wings banked at .
What is the radius of the loop?
2. A car is moving in a circular track of radius 10 m with a constant speed of 10 m/s. A bob is
suspended from the roof of the car by a light rod of length 1 m. What is the angle made by the
rod with the track? (
3. The amplitude of a particle executing S.H.M. with a frequency of 60 Hz is 0.01 m. Determine
the maximum value of the acceleration of the particle.
4. The vertical motion of a huge piston in a machine is approximately simple harmonic with a
frequency of 0.5 s-1. A block of 10 kg is placed on the piston. What is the maximum amplitude
of the piston’s S.H.M. for the block and piston to remain together?
5. A particle executing S.H.M. has a maximum displacement of 4 cm and its acceleration at a
distance of 2 cm from its mean position is 3 cms-2. What will be its velocity when it is at a
distance of 2 cm from its mean position?
6. A particle executing S.H.M. a long a straight line has a velocity of 4 ms-1 when its
displacement from mean position is 3 m and 3 ms-1 when the displacement is 4 m. Find the
time taken to travel 2.5 m from the positive extremity of its oscillation.
7. the acceleration of a particle executing S.H.M. is 12 cms-2 at a distance of 3 cm from the mean
position. Calculate its time period.
8. A body is vibrating with S.H.M. with amplitude 15 cm and frequency 4 Hz. Calculate the
maximum acceleration and the velocity when the displacement is 10 cm.
9. A particle moves in a straight line, with simple harmonic motion, making seven complete
oscillations in 11 seconds. The velocity of the particle is 1.2 m/s when its distance from the
centre of oscillation is 12.5 cm. Find the amplitude of motion, the maximum velocity and
maximum acceleration.
10. A body of mass 0.5 kg suspended by an ideal spring oscillates up and down. The amplitude
of oscillation is 0.5 m and periodic time is 1.57 second. Determine: maximum speed of the
body, maximum kinetic energy, total energy, force constant of spring (spring constant).
11. State Newton’s law of universal gravitation law
12. States Kepler’s laws
13. What is the meaning of escape velocity?
14. The mass of planet Jupiter is kg and that of sun is kg. The mean distance
of the sun from Jupiter is m. Calculate the gravitational force which sun exerts on
Jupiter.
15. A Saturn year is 29.5 times the earth year. How far is the Saturn from the sun if the earth is
km away from the sun?
16. A satellite goes round the earth in 90 minutes in a circular orbit. Calculate the height of the
satellite above the earth, taking earth to be a sphere of radius 6370 km.
17. The moon has a period of 28 days and an orbital radius km. What is the orbital
radius of a satellite that has a period of one day?
18. The acceleration due to gravity on the moon is 1.7 m/s2 and its radius is 0.27 times that of
earth. Compute the ratio of the mass of the earth to that of the moon.
19. Jupiter has a mass 318 times that of the earth and its radius is 11.2 times the earth’s radius.
Estimate the escape velocity of a body from Jupiter’s surface, given the escape velocity from
earth’s is 11.2 km/s.