MESH INTERNATIONAL SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION (ALP A2) CT

1. When a family of four (total mass of 200 kg) stepped into their 1200 kg car, the cars springs
compressed 5 cm. What is the spring constant of the cars springs assuming they act as one single
spring?
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2. Imagine that you videotape the motion of a mass attached to a spring and measure the
displacement x from the equilibrium position as a function of time t. When you plot position, velocity
and acceleration as a function of time you get the following graphs.

a. Find the amplitude.

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b. Find the period

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c. Find angular frequency.
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d. Find the magnitude of the maximum velocity.
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e. Find the magnitude of the maximum acceleration.
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3. When a 0.50 kg-object is attached to a vertically supported spring, it stretches 0.10 m. It is then
pulled another 0.10 m from its new equilibrium position. Find, for this mass-spring system, the:
a. period
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b. angular frequency
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4. An object with mass m = 0.60 kg attached to a spring with k = 10 N/m vibrates back and forth along
a horizontal frictionless surface. If the amplitude of the motion is 0.050 m, what is the velocity of the
object when it is 0.010 m from the equilibrium position?
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5. What length of string would be necessary to make a simple pendulum with a period of 10.0 s?
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6. On a planet with an unknown value of g, the period of a 0.65 m long pendulum is 2.8 s. What is g
for the planet?
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7. A pendulum bob of mass m attached to a string of length L vibrates back and forth along a circular
arc.

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a. Draw a free body force diagram for the bob and show all the forces acting on it. [4]

(b) Write Newton's second law of motion for the component of the force tangent to the path.
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(c) What is the frequency of its motion, using the symbols provided and universal constants?
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8. In the diagram to the right, a block is attached to a Hookean spring. The spring is neither stretched
nor compressed at position C. Assume that frictional effects are negligible. The velocity vs. time graph
below represents the motion of the block as it oscillates between positions A and E. Fill in the boxes
with the correct positions corresponding to the graph shown. On the axes indicated, sketch the
corresponding position, acceleration, force, kinetic energy, elastic energy, and total energy vs. time
graphs. (12 marks)

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