chapter7 Flashcards
What is the unit of work?
joule
A force sets an object in motion. When the force is multiplied by the time of its application, we call the quantity impulse, and an impulse changes the momentum of that object. What do we call the quantity force multiplied by distance?
work
How much work is done on a satellite in a circular orbit about Earth?
zero
Which requires more work: lifting a 50-kg sack a vertical distance of 2 m or lifting a 25-kg sack a vertical distance of 4 m?
Both take the same 1000 J.
If both sacks in the preceding question are lifted their respective distances in the same time, how does the power required for each compare? How about for the case in which the lighter sack is moved the same distance in half the time?
Lifted in the same time, the power is the same. The light sack moving in half the time requires double the power.
A car is raised a certain distance in a service-station lift, thus giving it potential energy relative to the floor. If it were raised twice as high, how much more potential energy would it have?
It would have twice as much potential energy.
Two cars are raised to the same elevation on service-station lifts. If one car is twice as massive as the other, compare their gains of potential energy.
The car with twice the mass has twice the potential energy
Compared with a car moving at some original speed, how much work must the brakes of a car supply to stop a car that is moving twice as fast? How will the stopping distances compare?
It takes four times the work and four times the stopping distance.
If you push a crate horizontally with 100 N across a 10-m factory floor and the friction between the crate and the floor is a steady 70 N, how much kinetic energy does the crate gain?
300 J
An apple hanging from a limb has potential energy because of its height. If it falls, what becomes of this energy just before it hits the ground? When it hits the ground?
The energy is kinetic energy before it hits the ground; it is thermal energy after.
In a simple machine, how much work is done when an input of 10 N acts over a distance of 5 m?
50 J
If a machine multiplies force by a factor of 4, what other quantity is diminished, and by how much?
Distance is diminished to one-quarter.
Can a machine multiply input force? Input distance? Input energy?
Force and distance, but not energy
If an input of 100 J in a pulley system increases the potential energy of a load by 60 J, what is the efficiency of the system?
60%
Fossil fuels, hydroelectric power, and wind power ultimately get their energy from _______.
the sun
Which energy production method does not ultimately depend on the Sun?
Nuclear fission
What is the ultimate source of the energy from fossil fuels, dams, and windmills?
the sun
A 1000-kg car and a 2000-kg car are hoisted to the same height. Raising the more massive car requires
twice as much work
The work you do when pushing a shopping cart twice as far while applying twice the force is
four times as much
No work is done by gravity on a bowling ball that rolls along a bowling alley because
the force on the ball is at right angles to the ball’s motion
One kilowatt-hour represents
3.6 million joules
The unit kilowatt-hour is a unit of
energy
The power expended doing 100 J of work in 50 s is
2 W
The power required to exert 4-N force over 3 meters in 2 seconds is
6W
Both a 50-kg sack is lifted 2 meters from the ground and a 25-kg sack is lifted 4 meters in the same time. The power expended in raising the 50-kg sack is
the same
A toy elevator is raised from the ground floor to the second floor in 20 seconds. The power needed using 1000 J of work, is
50 W
An object has gravitational potential energy due to its
location
A crate of grapes lifted 10 meters gains 200 J of potential energy. If the same crate is instead lifted 20 meters, its gain in potential energy is
twice as much
A 2-kg ball is held 4 m above the ground. Relative to the ground its potential energy is
80 J