IFA BORU
SPECIAL BOARDING SECONDARY SCHOOL
DYNAMICS Worksheet
Prepared For Summer Program
BY:
Wondimu Getachew
(Summer, 2016 E.C)
Asella, Ethiopia
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1. As shown in figure below, two blocks are connected by a string of negligible mass passing over
a pulley of radius r = 0.2m and moment of inertia I. The block on the frictionless incline is
moving with a constant acceleration a = 2m/s2 up along the incline. What is the moment of
inertia of the pulley?
A) 0.8kgm2 B) 1.25kgm2 C) 4kgm2 D) 40kgm2
2. An aluminum block of mass m1 = 3kg and a copper block of mass m2 = 5kg are connected by
a light string over a frictionless pulley. They sit on the steel surface as shown below, where
θ = 530 . The coefficient of kinetic friction between the steel surface and each block is 0.3. If
the blocks are released from rest what is the tension T in the string?
A) 29.40N B) 17.25N C) 12.25N D) 8.60N
3. Which of the following are contact forces?
A) friction, gravity, electrostatics, and kicks
B) friction, tension, thrust, and air resistance
C) electrostatic, magnetic, weight, and viscous
D) gravity, magnetic, electrostatic, and buoyant
4. If the direction of a moving airplane changes and its speed remains constant, which quantity
must remain the same?
A) displacement B) velocity C) momentum D) kinetic energy
5. A 2kg circular magnet is attached to a vertical metallic board by magnetic force Fm = 16N
as shown in the diagram below. The magnet is then observed to slide along the surface at a
constant acceleration of 4m/s2. What is the coefficient of friction betweenthe magnet and the
board? (Use g = 10m/s2 )
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A) 0.70 B) 2.66 C) 0.75 D) 1.25
6. An object of mass m at rest explodes into two unequal masses 1/3 m and 2/3m. If the 1/3m
mass moves to the right with a speed of 20m/s, what is the velocity acquired by the 2/3m mass?
A) 10 m/s to the right B) 40 m/s to the left
C) 40 m/s to the right D) 10 m/s to the left
7. In the diagram below, three forces act concurrently on an object. If the object is in equilibrium,
what must be the magnitudes of components of F? (Use sin530 = 0.8 and cos530 = 0.6)
A) 9.8N and 6.4N B) 5N and 8N
C) 5N and 6.4N D) 11.4N and 6.4N
8. A system is a linear equilibrium if and only if the sum of all
A) forces acting on the system is zero.
B) forces acting on the y-axis is zero.
C) torques acting on the system is zero.
D) forces acting on the x-axis is zero.
9. Car A, with mass 2 × 103 kg moving at speed of 10m/s collides head on and sticks with Car B
of mass 3 × 103 kg initially at rest. How much kinetic energy is lost during the collision?
A) 4 × 103 J B) 6 × 103 J C) 1 × 103 J D) 6 × 103 J
10. A 30 N force is applied to a 50 N block that is at rest on a horizontal surface as shown in the
diagram below. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the block and the horizontal surface
is 0.5 while that of static friction is 0.7. What friction force is blocking the body from sliding
due to the force of 30N exerted on it?
A) 25N kinetic friction B) 30N kinetic friction
C) 30N static friction D) 35N static friction
11. In the laboratory to determine the force constant a spring a student obtained the following data.
what is the average value of the spring constant K?
A) 92.0 N/m B) 133.3 N/m C) 142.8 N/m D) 138.0 N/m
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12. Chaltu and Abebe are carrying a uniform horizontal ladder that is 8m long and weights 600N
as shown in the figure below. If Chaltu applies an upward force equal to 200N at one end point
of the ladder, how far is Abebe from Chaltu?
A) 2m B) 7m C) 6m D) 8m
13. A 0.2kg ball of mud falls vertically onto a 2.8kg cart that is rolling freely at 3m/s on a horizontal
surface. What is the final speed of the cart?
A) 2.8m/s B) 5.6m/s C) 0.4m/s D) 3m/s
14. A concrete block of mass m hangs from two wires. The wires make the same angle with the
horizontal and the tension in them is the same as shown in the figure below. If the system is in
equilibrium, what will be the tension in each wire?
A) T = mg/ cos θ B) T = mg/ sin θ
C) T = mg/2 cos θ D) T = mg/2 sin θ
15. Friction can be increased by
A) making the surface smooth B) making the surface rough
C) rolling instead of sliding D) lubricating the surface
16. The impulse experienced by an object is equivalent to change in its A) momentum B) velocity
C) kinetic energy D) potential energy
17. Suppose you are travelling up with an elevator to the 10th floor of a building. When you nearly
at the 10th floor and the elevator is about to stop, your weight appear to be A) heavier B) the
same C) lighter D) weightlessness
18. Which one of the following is true about elastic and inelastic collisions?
A) kinetic energy is conserved in an inelastic collision only.
B) kinetic energy is conserved in both elastic and inelastic collision.
C) momentum is conserved in an elastic and inelastic collision.
D) momentum is conserved in both elastic and inelastic collision.
19. If there were no gravity, which of the following would still happen?
A) an apple on a tree would fall to the ground.
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B) an object thrown vertically dawn would strike the ground.
C) the moon would revolve around the Earth.
D) the Earth would revolve around the sun.
20. An object is initially in stable equilibrium. What happens when the object is slightly displaced
from its original position?
A) it remains stable in the new position.
B) it turns back to its original position.
C) it moves further away from its original position.
D) it does not necessary return to its original position.
21. A 500N weight is held suspend in equilibrium by two cables as shown in the figure below. Cable
1 applies a horizontal force and cable 2 applies a force at an angle of 300 above the horizontal.
What is the tension in cable 2? (sin 300 = cos 600 = 0.5, sin 600 = cos 300 = 0.87)
A) 250N B) 575N C) 500N D) 1000N
22. An object of mass (m) is suspended in air under the action of three forces in the same plane as
shown in the figure below; if the mass is in equilibrium, what will be the weight of the object?
(cos 370 = sin 530 = 0.8, sin 370 = cos 530 = 0.6)
A) 25N B) 21N C) 35N D) 28N
23. A block of mass m = 1kg is in contact with the front surface of the car as shown in the figure
below. The block does not fall as long as the car is accelerating to the right with acceleration
a = 20m/s2 . If the coefficient of static friction between the block and the front surface of the
car µs = 0.5 and g = 10m/s2 , what is the contact force that the front surface of the car exerts
on the block?
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A) 20N B) 50N C) 5N D) 10N
24. A heavy wooden block is dragged by a force ⃗F along a rough steel plate for two cases, where the
steel plate is horizontal in (i) and inclined in (ii) as shown in the figure below. If the magnitude
of the applied force ⃗F and the coefficient of kinetic friction µk are the same for both cases, what
is the correct relationship between the frictional forces ⃗f1 and ⃗f2 ?
A) ⃗f1 = ⃗f2 B) ⃗f1 < ⃗f2 C) ⃗f1 > ⃗f2 D) ⃗f1 ≤ ⃗f2
25. According to Newton’s second law, a force
A) is the rate of change of doing work
B) is the ability to do work.
C) has dimensions of momentum multiplied by time.
D) equals to the time rate of change of momentum.
26. Which statement is correct force a body to be in equilibrium under the combined action of
several forces?
A) All of the force from pairs of equals and opposite forces.
B) All the forces must be applied at the same point.
C) The sum of the components of all the forces in any direction must be equal to zero.
D) Any two of the forces must be balanced by a third force.
27. Two forces F1 and F2 act perpendicular to an object of mass m = 5.0kg as shown in the figure
below. The magnitude of the forces are F1 = 20.0N and F2 = 15.0N what is the magnitude of
its acceleration?
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A) 1m/s2 B) 7m/s2 C) 1.6m/s2 D) 5.0m/s2
28. Suppose that a man is pushing a car forward horizontally and the car is moving. According to
Newton’s third law the car is pushing the man backward horizontally by a force.
A) Of zero magnitude since both are moving forward.
B) Less in magnitude than that the man exerted on it.
C) Larger in magnitude than that the man exerted on it.
D) Equal in magnitude with that the man exerted on it.
29. An object of mass m1 = 3.0kg, moving with a velocity of 20.0m/s in the positive x direction,
collides with and sticks to an object of mass m2 = 2.0kg moving with a velocity of 10.0m/s in
the negative x-direction. What is the final velocity of the composite system?
A) 16m/s, negative x-direction
B) 16m/s, positive x-direction
C) 8m/s, negative x-direction
D) 8m/s, positive x-direction
30. An object is moving and accelerating to the right because of a net force of 50N. Then, another
50N force, directed to the left is applied to this same object. Which of the following is the
correct statement about its state of motion? The object;
A) Slows down and eventually stops.
B) Reverses its direction of motion from right to left.
C) Accelerate at a greater speed to the right.
D) Continues traveling to the right at a constant speed.
31. If the momentum of a body increases by 20% then, what is the percentage increase in its kinetic
energy?
A) 20 B) 40 C) 88 D) 44
32. Which one of the following reasoning is correct about the difficulty to walk in a sand than on
hard ground?
A) The action of the feet on the sandy ground is less than the reaction of the sandy ground on
the feet.
B) The hard ground can exert more reaction than the action of the man to keep him moving.
C) The action of the feet on the sandy ground is greater than the reaction of the sandy ground
on the feet.
D) The feet cannot put sufficient action which results in sufficient reaction to make walking
difficult.
33. A 1500 kg car moving at 30m/s applies breaks and skids to rest. If the frictional force between
the sliding tires and the road is 600N, then how far does the car slide before coming to rest?
A) 112.5m B) 11.25m C) 1.125km D) 112.5km
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34. A block is placed on an inclined plane. The plane is then raised until it makes an angle θ with
the horizontal. If the coefficient of friction µ for the block and the plane is 0.3 then what is the
value of θ to which the plane may be raised before the block begins to slide?
A) 450 B) tan−1 (0.3) C) 300 D) 200
35. Two heavily loaded trucks collide head on and entangled as a result of the collision. One of
them, which were at rest has a mass of 2500kg, the other truck having a mass of 2000 kg was
moving with a velocity of 100km/h before collision. What is the velocity in (m/s) of the entan-
gled mass after collision?
A) 20.3 B) 18.23 C) 15.34 D) 12.34
36. A wooden block loaded with books is given a push on a concrete floor. An initial velocity of
8m/s was imparted to it. How far the box moves in meters before coming to stop, if the coeffi-
cient of kinetic friction between the box and the floor is 0.8?
A) 5.0 B) 6.0 C) 4.0 D) 7.10
37. A force acts on a 3kg particle in such a way that the position as a function of time is given by
x = 3t − 4t 2 , where x is in meters and t in seconds. What is the work done by the force during
the first 4 seconds?
A) 1218J B) 1228J C) 1248J D) 1258J
38. Two masses 2kg and 3kg are attached to the end of a light string passing over a pulley, fixed at
the top. What are the tension and acceleration in the string in terms of g?
12g g 21g g 7g g 7g g
A) 5 , 5 B) 8 , 8 C) 8, 5 D) 8, 8
A) 15kg B) 10 kg C) 5kg D) 0kg
39. Two spherical masses, A and B of mass M and 3M respectively, hang from the ceiling on strings
of length L. Sphere A is drawn aside so that it is raised to a height h0 as shown in figure below,
then released. Sphere A collides with sphere B; they stick together and swings to a maximum
height h. What would be the value of this height?
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ho h0 h0 h0
A) 6 B) 8 C) 4 D) 2
40. A ball of mass M moves with speed V in the +x-direction. It explodes into two pieces that go
off at angles θ1 and θ2 , as shown below. What are the magnitude of the momenta of the two
pieces?
MV sin θ2 MV sin θ1
A) p1 = sin(θ1 +θ2 ) and p2 = sin(θ1 +θ2 )
MV cos θ2 MV cos θ1
B) p1 = sin(θ1 +θ2 ) and p2 = sin(θ1 +θ2 )
C) p1 = MV tan θ2 and p2 = MV tan θ1
MV cos θ2 MV cos θ1
D) p1 = cos(θ1 +θ2 ) and p2 = cos(θ1 +θ2 )
41. A 5kg mass pushed upward along an inclined plane of inclination 300 with constant force F.
If the Acceleration of the block for this motion is 1.0m/s2 and the plane is assumed to be
frictionless, what is the magnitude of the constant force F?
42. Which one of the following is true about fundamental force?
A) Strong nuclear force is a short-range force that holds protons and neutrons to form atomic
nucleus.
A) Gravitational force is a long range attractive force between particles due to their charge.
C) Electromagnetic force is a long range attractive force between particles due to their mass.
D) A weak nuclear force is an extremely short range force that bonds proton and neutrons
together in a nucleus.
43. Which of the following is correct about an astronaut inside an international space station orbit-
ing the earth?
A) The astronaut experiences weightlessness since the Earth’s gravitational force on the as-
tronaut is less than the Earth’s force on the space station.
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B) Since the Earth exerts equal forces on both the astronaut and the space station, the astro-
naut experiences weightlessness.
C) Because the Earth exerts a larger force on the astronaut than on the space station, the
astronaut experienced weightlessness.
D) The astronaut experiences weightlessness because the space station and astronauts are
freely falling toward the centre of the Earth
44. Dynamic is the branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of an object
A) Without its causes
B) under the action of force
C) Whose velocity is constant
D) under the action of balanced force.
45. Which one of the following statement is NOT correct about the concept and units of coefficient
of friction?
A) Coefficient of static friction has no unit.
B) The coefficient of friction is always less or equal to unity (1).
C) Coefficient of friction is the ratio of frictional force and normal force.
D) Coefficient of static friction is less than its value of kinetic friction.
46. A car is travelling at a constant velocity along a straight line. Which, statement is correct?
A) The net force on the car is different from zero.
B) The acceleration of the car is in opposite direction.
C) The displacement of the car increase linearly with time.
D) The displacement of the car is in opposite direction.
47. Which one of the following statement is correct about the impulse on an object?
A) Impulse is the change in momentum when force is exerted on an object for a very short
period of time.
B) Impulse is the rate of change in momentum due to external force exerted on an object for
a very short period of time.
C) The impulse on an object is changed when the net force acting on an object is zero.
D) The area under the curve of momentum versus time graph is the impulse on an object.
48. Consider two collisions, that occurred between two trolleys having the same mass; moving with
the same speed, and in opposite direction,
Collision1: after collision the two trolleys bounce back with the same speed.
Collision2: after collision the two trolleys stick together due to magnetic coupler.
Which of the following statement is correct about the two collisions?
A) Both collisions are inelastic
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B) Collision1 is inelastic and Collision2 is elastic.
C) Both collisions are elastic.
D) Collision1 is elastic and Collision2 is inelastic.
49. Three blocks of mass M1 = 1kg, M2 = 2kg and M3 = 3kg, placed on a horizontal frictionless
table, are connected with the strings and pulled to the right by a force F = 9N, as show in the
figure below. Find: the acceleration a, tension T1 ,and T2
50. Two masses A and B of 10kg and 5kg respectively are connected with a string passing over a
frictionless pulley fixed at the corner of table as shown. The coefficient of friction of A with the
table is 0.2. What is the value of the minimum mass of C that may be placed on A to prevent it
from moving?
51. Two masses of m1 and m2 are balanced on horizontal stick of negligible mass pivoted at the cen-
ter of mass of the system. If the distance from m1 to the center of mass is 3.0m and the distance
from mass m2 to the center of mass is 1.0m, the ratio of m1 to m2 (m1 /m2 ) is .
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