1.

A car is initially travelling at 40 ms-1 before slamming on its breaks and coming to a stop
in 3.0 seconds. How far does the car travel during this period?

2. A tennis ball was hit at a wall 68.6 m away. The ball experiences a constant negative
horizontal acceleration from air resistance equal to 70.9 ms-2. If it takes 4.7 s for the ball
to hit the wall, what is the initial velocity of the tennis ball when it was hit?

3. The graph of the speed of a car moving along a straight road is shown below. Find its
instantaneous acceleration at t = 2, 5, 8 and 12 seconds.

4. A ball is thrown straight up in the air with initial speed 20 ms-1. Plot graphs showing its
speed, height and acceleration as functions of time.

5. A ball is thrown straight up with a speed 15 ms-1 from the top of a 20 m high building.
How fast is the ball going just before it strikes the ground?

6. A ladybug falls into a small hole. It takes 8.6 s for the ladybug to hit the bottom. How
deep is the hole?

7. Two boys are standing on the penthouse floor of an apartment building. The first boy
drops a vase out the window. Two seconds later the second boy throws another vase
downward out the window. Both vases hit the ground at the same instant. If the vases
dropped 400 m, what was the initial velocity of the second vase? What was the final
velocity of each vase?

8. A toy was dropped 87.0 m from the surface of a large asteroid. The toy was initially at
rest. Given that it took 7.7 s to fall to the surface, what is the surface gravitational
acceleration of the asteroid?

9. A projectile moving at a speed of 100 ms-1 leaves the earth at an angle of 37° to the
horizontal. Where is it, relative to the starting point, when it is 150 m high?

10. The speed of a certain particle is given in meters per second by v=80 − 4 t for t ≤ 20 s.
Find the average value of v in the interval 0 ≤ t ≤ 20 s.
11. For a certain weather balloon of mass 8 kg, the upward buoyancy force is 90 N.
Assuming no friction, how long would it take the balloon to reach a height of 100 m after
being released?

12. A proton (m = 1.67×10-27 kg) is shot at a sheet of material with speed 7.0×106 ms-1. After
emerging from the sheet its speed is 5.0×106 ms-1. If the sheet is 0.010 mm thick, find the
average retarding fore experienced by the proton.

13. A car that weights 1,200 kg is travelling at 35 ms -1. How much work does it take to bring
the car to a stop? If the initial velocity were doubled, how would this affect the previous
answer?

14. Find the force acting on a 2.56×10 3 kg airplane constantly accelerating from 3.2 ms-1
to 300 ms-1 in 0.87s

15. A force specified as follows

F=0 t <0
F = 3.0 N 0 ≤ t ≤ 0.50 s
F=0 t >0.50 s
acts on an object.
Find the change in momentum caused by the force.

16. A 7 kg gun is accidentally discharges as it lies at rest on a smooth table. The exiting bullet
has a speed of 150 ms-1 and a mass of 30 g. Find the recoil speed of the gun.

17. In a certain gun, a 20 g bullet is accelerated from rest to 100 ms -1 in a distance of 40 cm.
Find the average force on the bullet.

18. A 100 kg hammer falls from a vertical height of 5 m from rest and drives a stake into the
ground in a time interval of 0.10 s from initial impact. What is the average force of
resistance of the ground?

19. A body of mass 50 g falling freely from rest from a position 30 cm vertically above a
horizontal surface, rebounds to a height of 20 cm after impact. Calculate the change in
momentum and kinetic energy on impact.

20. A bullet of mass 20 g, moving at 50 ms -1 embeds itself in a fixed target to a depth of 2.5
cm. Calculate (a) the kinetic energy of the bullet immediately before entering the target,
(b) the average resisting force experienced on entering the target.

21. A cruise ship with a mass of 1.00 ×107 kg strikes a pier at a speed of 0.750 ms -1. It comes
to rest 6 m later, damaging the ship, the pier, and the tugboat captain’s finances. Calculate
the average force exerted on the pier using the concept of impulse. (Hint: First calculate
the time it took to bring the ship to rest).

22. A bullet of mass 20 g is fired horizontally into a 1 kg block of wood suspended by metre-
long light vertical strings. If, after the bullet has embedded itself into the block, the strings
are deflected through an angle of 30° with the vertical, calculate the velocity of the bullet
just before impact with the block.