Work Power and Energy
Important Easy Notes of Physics of Chapter No.7: Work Power and Energy written by Professor Mr. M. Talha Suib. These notes are very helpful in the preparation of Physics for students of the 11th class and these are according to the paper patterns of all Sindh Book Boards.
Summary and Contents:
Topics which are discussed in the notes are given below:
- Very Important Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with Answers of the Chapter No.7: Work Power and Energy in Physics Class 11 Sindh Book Boards.
- Definition of Work and Mathematical Definition of Work
- Dimension and Nature of Work
- Units of Work
- Definition of power
- Definition of average power with its mathematical form
- Dimension and nature of power units of power
- Definition of a conservative field with example
- State and Explain Gravitational Field as a conservative field
- Definition of energy and dimension of and nature of energy units of energy
- Definition of potential energy with formula and derivation
- Definition of kinetic energy with formula and derivation
- State and explain law of conservation of energy
- Derivation of internal conservation of potential energy and kinetic energy (work energy equation)
- Definition of absolute gravitational potential energy
- Various sources of energy: (i) Wind Energy (Wind Power) (ii) Hydro electricity (Water Power) (iii) Fossil Fuel (iv) Nuclear Energy (v) Geothermal Energy (vi) Solar Energy
- Calculate the work done by a force F specified by F = 3i + 4j + 5k in displacing a body from position B
to position A along a straight path. The position vectors A & B are respectively given as rA = 2i + 5j – 2k &
rB = 7i + 3j – 5k
- A 2000 kg car traveling at 20 m/s comes to rest on a level ground in a distance of 100 m. How large is
the average frictional force tending to stop it?
- A 100-kg man is in a car traveling at 20 m/s. (a) Find his kinetic energy. (b) The car strikes a concrete
wall and comes to rest after the front of the car has collapsed 1 m. The man is wearing a seat bell and
harness. What is the average force exerted by the belt and harness during the crash?
- When an object is thrown upward, it rises to a height ‘h’. How high is the object, in terms of h, when it
has lost one-third of its original kinetic energy?
- A pump is needed to lift water through a height of 2.5 m at the rate of 500 g/min. What must the
minimum horse power of the pump be?
- A horse pulls a cart horizontally with a force of 40 lb at an angle 30o above the horizontal and moves
along at a speed of 6.0 miles/hr. (a) How much work does the horse do in 10 minutes? (b) What is the
power out put of the horse?
- A body of mass ‘m’ accelerates uniformly from rest to a speed Vf in time tf. Show that the work done on
the body as a function of time ‘t’, in terms of Vf and tf, is
- A rocket of mass 0.200 kg is launched from rest. It reaches a point p lying at a height 30.0 m above the
surface of the earth from the starting point. In the process + 425 J of work is done on the rocket by the
burning chemical propellant. Ignoring air-resistance and the amount of mass lost due to the burning
propellant, find the speed Vf of the rocket at the point P.
- Two forces F1 = 3i-2j+ 5k and F2 = i +6 j +2k act on a body which is displaced along a vector r = 4i - j
+ 3k . Calculate the work done on the body
- A crane lifts a load of 6000 N through a vertical distance of 15 m in 30 s. What is the potential
energy at the highest point of this operation?
- A horse pulls a cart horizontally with a force of 60 lb at an angle of 30 degrees above the horizontal
and moves along at a speed of 8 miles per hour. How much work does the horse do in 15 minutes and whaTs the power output of the horse.(1 hp=550 lb-ft / sec) and (1 mile=5280 ft)
- A 80 kg man runs up a hill through a height of 3m in 2 sec. What is his average power output?
- An object moves along a straight line in a force field from (3, 2, -6) to (14, 13, 9) when a uniform
force F=4i + j + 3k acts on it. Find the work done.
- A horse pulls a cart horizontally with a force of 40 N at an angle of 25 degrees above the horizontal
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and moves along at a speed of 15 m/s . How much work does the horse do in 5 minutes and what is the
power output of the horse. Give your answer in horse power (1 hp=746 W)
- An object weighing 98N is dropped from a height of 10m. It is found to be moving with a velocity
12m/sec just before it hits the ground. How large was the frictional force acting upon it?