Show that a mass of about 240 kg of air moves through the fan every second.

Show that the speed of the load when it hits the floor is about 2.1 m s⁻¹.

A stone is kicked horizontally at a speed of 1.5 m s⁻¹ from the edge of a cliff on one of Jupiter’s moons. It hits the ground 2.0 s later. The height of the cliff is 4.0 m. Air resistance is negligible.

What is the magnitude of the displacement of the stone?

A.  7.0 m

B.  5.0 m

C.  4.0 m

D.  3.0 m

A ball is thrown upwards at an angle to the horizontal. Air resistance is negligible. Which statement about the motion of the ball is correct?

A. The acceleration of the ball changes during its flight.

B. The velocity of the ball changes during its flight.

C. The acceleration of the ball is zero at the highest point.

D. The velocity of the ball is zero at the highest point.

A girl throws an object horizontally at time t = 0. Air resistance can be ignored. At t = 0.50 s the object travels horizontally a distance $x$ in metres while it falls vertically through a distance $y$ in metres.

What is the initial velocity of the object and the vertical distance fallen at t = 1.0 s?

At position B the rope starts to extend. Calculate the speed of the block at position B.

A mass is suspended from the ceiling of a train carriage by a string. The string makes an angle θ with the vertical when the train is accelerating along a straight horizontal track.

What is the acceleration of the train? 

A. g sin θ

B. g cos θ 

C. g tan θ 

D. $\frac{g}{\tan \theta }$

Show that the tennis ball passes over the net.

The glider reaches its launch speed of 27.0 m s^–1 after accelerating for 11.0 s. Assume that the glider moves horizontally until it leaves the ground. Calculate the total distance travelled by the glider before it leaves the ground.

Show that a mass of about 240 kg of air moves through the fan every second.

Comment on the magnitude of the force in (b)(ii).

Calculate the distance along the slope at which the sledge stops moving. Assume that the coefficient of dynamic friction is constant.

Show that the acceleration of the sledge is about –2 m s^–2.

Calculate the time it takes the tennis ball to reach the net.

An object of weight W is falling vertically at a constant speed in a fluid. What is the magnitude of the drag force acting on the object? 

A. 0
B. $\frac{W}{2}$
C. W 
D. 2W

At position B the rope starts to extend. Calculate the speed of the block at position B.

A car accelerates uniformly from rest to a velocity $v$ during time $t_1$. It then continues at constant velocity $v$ from $t_1$ to time $t_2$.

What is the total distance covered by the car in $t_2$?

A.  $v t_2$

B.  $\frac{1}{2}v\left(t_2-t_1\right)+v t_1$

C.  $\frac{1}{2}v\left(t_2+t_1\right)$

D.  $\frac{1}{2}v t_1+v\left(t_2-t_1\right)$

Deduce the mass of the airboat.

Deduce the mass of the airboat.

(i) Estimate the maximum speed of the spacecraft.

(ii) Outline why the answer to (i) is an estimate.

The top of the wall is 2.4 m above the ground. Deduce whether the ball will hit the wall.

Show that the time taken for the ball to reach the surface of the table is about 0.2 s.

Estimate the maximum speed of the spacecraft.

The net is stretched across the middle of the table. The table has a length of 2.74 m and the net has a height of 15.0 cm.

Show that the ball will go over the net.

The minute hand of a clock hanging on a vertical wall has length $L = 30 \text{cm.}$

The minute hand is observed pointing at 12 and then again 30 minutes later when the minute hand is pointing at 6.

What is the average velocity and average speed of point P on the minute hand during this time interval?

A projectile is launched at an angle above the horizontal with a horizontal component of velocity $V_{\text{h}}$ and a vertical component of velocity $V_{\text{v}}$. Air resistance is negligible. Which graphs show the variation with time of $V_{\text{h}}$ and of $V_{\text{v}}$?

The ball leaves the ground at an angle of 22°. The horizontal distance from the initial position of the edge of the ball to the wall is 11 m. Calculate the time taken for the ball to reach the wall.

A tennis ball is released from rest at a height h above the ground. At each bounce 50 % of its kinetic energy is lost to its surroundings. What is the height reached by the ball after its second bounce?

A.  $\frac{h}{8}$

B.  $\frac{h}{4}$

C.  $\frac{h}{2}$

D.  zero

A balloon rises at a steady vertical velocity of $10 \mathrm{m} {\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. An object is dropped from the balloon at a height of $40 \mathrm{m}$ above the ground. Air resistance is negligible. What is the time taken for the object to hit the ground?

A.  $10 \mathrm{s}$

B.  $5 \mathrm{s}$

C.  $4 \mathrm{s}$

D.  $2 \mathrm{s}$

A horizontal force $F$ acts on a sphere. A horizontal resistive force $k{v}^2$ acts on the sphere where $v$ is the speed of the sphere and $k$ is a constant. What is the terminal velocity of the sphere?

A.  $\sqrt{\frac{k}{F}}$

B.  $\frac{k}{F}$

C.  $\frac{F}{k}$

D.  $\sqrt{\frac{F}{k}}$

Estimate the speed of the train.

Estimate the speed of the train.

Calculate the time it takes the tennis ball to reach the net.

Show that the tennis ball passes over the net.

A sports car is accelerated from 0 to 100 km per hour in 3 s. What is the acceleration of the car?

A. 0.1 g

B. 0.3 g

C. 0.9 g

D. 3 g

Determine H.

Draw, on the axes, a graph to show the variation with time of the height of the ball from the instant it rebounds from the floor until the instant it reaches the maximum rebound height. No numbers are required on the axes.

Determine, for particle P, the magnitude and direction of the acceleration at t = 2.0 m s.

A cart travels from rest along a horizontal surface with a constant acceleration. What is the variation of the kinetic energy E_k of the cart with its distance s travelled? Air resistance is negligible.

A block moving with initial speed $v$ is brought to rest, after travelling a distance d, by a frictional force $f$ . A second identical block moving with initial speed u is brought to rest in the same distance d by a frictional force $\frac{f}{2}$. What is u?

A.  $v$

B.  $\frac{v}{\sqrt{2}}$

C.  $\frac{v}{2}$

D.  $\frac{v}{4}$

A ball is thrown upwards at time t = 0. The graph shows the variation with time of the height of the ball. The ball returns to the initial height at time T.

What is the height h at time t ?

A.  $\frac{1}{2}g{t}^2$

B.  $\frac{1}{2}g{T}^2$

C.  $\frac{1}{2}gT\left(T-t\right)$

D.  $\frac{1}{2}gt\left(T-t\right)$