Tutorial PHY094 Sem I 2014/2015 : Prepared by Madam Abir, Miss Arda, Sir Ikhwan & Miss Hanim Page 1

PHY094
TUTORIAL 9 (Week 10)

Chapter 13.1 - 13.5
[Question No: 4, 6, 8, 20, 18, 22, 26, 28 and 36]
Pages: 466-469

4. A load of 50 N attached to a spring hanging vertically stretches the spring 5.0 cm.
The spring is now placed horizontally on a table and stretched 11 cm. (a) what force
is required to stretch the spring by that amount? (b) Plot a graph of force (on the y-
axis) versus spring displacement from the equilibrium position along the x-axis.

6. An archer must exert a force of 375 N on the bowstring shown in Figure P13.6a such
that the string makes an angle of = 35.0 with the vertical. (a) Determine the
tension in the bowstring. (b) If the applied force is replaced by a stretched spring as
in Figure P13.6b and the spring is stretched 30.0 cm from its unstretched length,
what is the spring constant?


8. A block of mass m = 2.00 kg is attached to a spring of force constant k = 5.00 x 10
2

N/m that lies on a horizontal frictionless surface as shown in Figure P13.8. The block
is pulled to a position x
i
= 5.00 cm to the right of equilibrium and released from rest.
Find (a) the work required to stretch the spring and (b) the speed the block has as it
passes through equilibrium.


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18. An object moves uniformly around a circular path of radius 20.0 cm, making one
complete revolution every 2.00 s. What are (a) the translational speed of the object,
(b) the frequency of motion in hertz, and (c) the angular speed of the object?

20. A 50.0-g object is attached to a horizontal spring with a force constant of 10.0 N/m
and released from rest with amplitude of 25.0 cm. What is the velocity of the object
when it is halfway to the equilibrium position if the surface is frictionless?

22. An objectspring system oscillates with amplitude of 3.5 cm. If the spring constant is
250 N/m and the object has a mass of 0.50 kg, determine (a) the mechanical energy
of the system, (b) the maximum speed of the object, and (c) the maximum
acceleration of the object.

26. The period of motion of an objectspring system is T = 0.528 s when an object of
mass m = 238 g is attached to the spring. Find (a) the frequency of motion in hertz
and (b) the force constant of the spring. (c) If the total energy of the oscillating
motion is 0.234 J, find the amplitude of the oscillations.

28. The position of an object connected to a spring varies with time according to the
expression x = (5.2 cm) sin (8.0t). Find (a) the period of this motion, (b) the
frequency of the motion, (c) the amplitude of the motion, and (d) the first time after
t = 0 that the object reaches the position x = 2.6 cm.

36. A man enters a tall tower, needing to know its height. He notes that a long
pendulum extends from the ceiling almost to the floor and that its period is 15.5 s.
(a) How tall is the tower? (b) If this pendulum is taken to the Moon, where the free-
fall acceleration is 1.67 m/s
2
, what is the period there?