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Net Force Particle Model Worksheet 4:
Newton's 2nd Law and Component Forces
1. A rollercoaster car, 300 kg with passengers, accelerates down a 65° hill.
We will assume that friction is small enough that it can be ignored.
a. Draw a force diagram for the
system of car and riders.
Fnet

FN

Fg┴║
65°

┴ F ║
g║║

Fg

b. Determine the value of the component of the gravitational force

parallel to the hill.

Fgpar               

c. What is the acceleration of the rollercoaster down the hill?

    

a     
  

d. If they are traveling 4 m/s at the time shown in the picture, how fast
will they be traveling at the end of the straight stretch, 20 m later?

v f2            

                  
 

            

 

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 2. A worker pushes a 7 kg shipping box along a roller track. Assume friction
is small enough to be ignored because of the rollers. The worker's push is
25 N directed down and to the right at an angle of 20°.
a. Draw a force diagram for the block.
y
FN

20° x
25N

b. Determine the horizontal-component of the worker's push.

Fg
Fx        


c. Write a net force equation for the horizontal forces on the block.

Fnet = Fx = 23.5N

d. Determine the acceleration of the block.

   
a    
  

e. Determine the normal force on the block.

FN      
             
         

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 3. A 70 kg box is pulled by a 400 N force at an angle of 30° to the horizontal.
The force of kinetic friction is 75 N.
a. Draw a quantitative force
diagram for the box.

Fg            

        
         
                
y
    FN = 500N

400N
b. Determine the acceleration of the box. Fy= 200N
Ffk= 75N x
Fx= 346N

          

a      
     
     


Fg = 700N

4. Below is a picture of an Atwood's Machine: two masses attached to a

frictionless, massless pulley (pretty neat how physicists dream up
equipment like this, huh?). The mass of
block A is 5.0 kg, and the mass of B is
2.0 kg.

a. Determine the acceleration of the

system when the blocks are released.

For the system it is convenient to

make the coordinate system follow
the string. So positive is up for B and
down for A. Therefore A is pulled by
the earth in the positive direction and
B in the negative. The string pulls in
opposite directions equally so it exerts no net force on the system

                   

a      
         

b. How long will it take for block A to fall 2.0 m?

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    
                    
  

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 5. Two lovers are parked 10.0 m from the edge of a cliff in a car whose mass,
including that of the occupants is 1000 kg. A jealous suitor ties a rope to
the car's bumper and a 50 kg rock to the other end of the rope. He then
lowers the rock over the edge of the cliff, and the car, which is in neutral,
accelerates toward the edge. (Note the similarity to the modified Atwood's
machine lab, and ignore frictional effects.)
a. Draw force diagrams for
the rock and the car:

FN

FT
FT

Fg
Fg

Illustration By Blair Turner, class of 2003.

b. Determine the acceleration of the car towards the edge.

The net force on the system is the force of the earth's gravity on the
rock. The two tensions cancel out and the force of gravity on the earth
is canceled out by the normal force of the earth on the car.

a
Fnet

weight of rock

N
50kg 10 kg

 
500N
0.48 sm2
m total mass 1000kg  50kg 1050kg

c. How long do the lovers have to apply the brakes before they go over
 the edge?

2 x 2(10m)
x  v i t  21 at 2  x  0  21 at 2  t  t   6.5s
a .48 sm2

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