Dynamics

Problem Set Finals

(Angle of Banking of Highway Curve, WorkEnergy-Method, Bodies in Collision)
1. Find the angle of banking for a highway curve
of 280 ft radius designed to accommodate
cars travelling at 160 kph, if the coefficient of
friction between the tires and the road is 0.50.
2. In the above problem, what is the rated speed
of the curve?
3. A block weighing 20 kN is pushed by a
horizontal force of 20 kN along a smooth
horizontal plane from A to B, which is 20
meters long. The velocity of the block at A is
15 m/s. The block is released at B and passed
through an upward circular are BC (tangent to
B) of radius 10 meters and of central angle of
45o, and along an inclined plane CD tangent
to the arc at C. What is the velocity of the
bock at B?
4. From the above problem, what is the velocity
of the bock at C?
5. From the same problem, what is the distance
along CD that the block will move before it
comes the rest?
6. A force of 200 lb, acts on a block at an angle
of 20o with the horizontal. The block is pushed
2 feet horizontally. What is the work done by
this force
7. What is the kinetic energy of a 3000-lb
automobile which is moving at 44 fps?
8. A body weighing 1000 lb fall 6 inches and
stikes a 2000 lb/in spring. What is the
deformation of the spring?

15. Traffic travels at 65 min/sec around a banked

highway curve with a radius of 3,000 ft. What
banking angle is necessary such that friction
will not be required to resist the centrifugal
force?
16. Determine the angle of elevation for a 200-m
highway curve so that there will be no side
trust at speed of 200 kph.
17. A highway curve is super-elevated at 7 o. Find
the radius of the curve if there is no lateral
pressure on the wheels of a car at a speed of
40 miles per hour.
18. A bullet is fired from a gun with a muzzle
velocity of 100 m/s and penetrates a block of
wood to a depth of 200 mm. If another bullet
is fired from the same gun through a 100 mm
board of the same kind of wood, determine
the velocity of the bullet as it passes through
the 100 mm board assuming the acceleration
of the bullet as it penetrates the wood
remains constant.
19. A 10-kg block is raised vertically by 3 meters.
What is the change in potential energy?
Express your answer in S.I. units.
20. A 4000-kg elevator, starting from rest,
accelerates uniformly to a constant speed of 2
m/s and decelerates uniformly to stop 20 m
above its initial position. Neglecting friction
and other losses, what work was done on the
elevator?
21. The 300-newton block shown in the figure is
at rest on a rough horizontal plane before the
force P is applied at t=0. The force P = 80t,
where P is in newtons and t is in seconds.

9. What is the mass moment of inertia of a

cylinder of radius 4m and mass of 4kg?
10. A solid disk flywheel (I m= 100 kg-m2) is
rotating with a speed of 900 rpm. What is the
rational kinetic energy?
11. What momentum does a 50-lb projectile
possess if it is moving at 400 mph?
12. A 200 body moves to the right at 10 m/s and
another 280-kg body moves to the left at 6
m/s. They collided with each other and after
impact the 200 kg body rebounds to the left
at 4 m/s.
Compute the coefficient of
restitution.
13. A ball is dropped into a solid floor from an
initial height ho. If the coefficient of restitution
is 0.90, how high will the ball rebound?
14. A 50-g rifle bullet is fired with speed of 350
m/s into a ballistic pendulum of mass 6 kg
which is suspended from a chord 1 m long.
Compute the vertical height in cm through
which pendulum rises.

22. From the above problem, what is the velocity

of the block, in meters per second, after 5
seconds?
23. From the same problem, what is the distance
travelled by the block, in meters, after 5
seconds?
24. A 60-ton rail car, moving at 1 mile per hour, is
instantaneously coupled to a stationary 40ton rail car. What is the speed of the coupled
cars?
25. A 10-g block slides with a velocity of 20 cm/s
on a smooth level surface and collides, head
on, with a 30-g block moving in the opposite
direction with a velocity of 10 cm/s. If the
collision is perfectly elastic, what is the
velocity of the 30-g block after the collision?

26. Two masses collide on a frictionless horizontal

floor and in a perfectly inelastic collision. Mass
1 is four times that of mass 2. The velocity of
mass 1 is 10 m/s to the right and that of mass
2 is 20 m/s to the left. What is the velocity
and direction of the resulting combined mass?

27. A bullet weighing 0.014 kg and moving

horizontally with a velocity of 610 m/s strikes
centrally a block of wood having a mass of
4.55 kg which is suspended by a cord from a
point 1.2 m above the center of the block. To
what angle from the vertical will the block and
embedded bullet swing?