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    Newton's 3rd Law Problems

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    This document provides 19 physics practice problems involving calculations of force, mass, acceleration, velocity, and momentum. Students are instructed to show their work and provide units for each answer. The problems cover concepts including Newton's Second Law, force, mass, acceleration, weight, and momentum.

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    This document provides 19 physics practice problems involving calculations of force, mass, acceleration, velocity, and momentum. Students are instructed to show their work and provide units for each answer. The problems cover concepts including Newton's Second Law, force, mass, acceleration, weight, and momentum.

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    Newton's 3rd Law Problems

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    This document provides 19 physics practice problems involving calculations of force, mass, acceleration, velocity, and momentum. Students are instructed to show their work and provide units for each answer. The problems cover concepts including Newton's Second Law, force, mass, acceleration, weight, and momentum.

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    What a momentous occasion

    Practice calculations!!!

    Write the given, which formula you used, show your work, and label f
    your answer with the appropriate units for full credit!!! 5 points each.
    W=mxg(9.8m/s²), f=mxa, a=f/m, m=f/a, p= mxv. m a

    1. How much force is needed to accelerate a 75 kg trick rider and his 225 kg
    pink flaming motorcycle to 5 m/s²?
    GIVEN WORK

    m v
    ANSWER:

    2. Mrs. Wallace used a force of 300 N to accelerate a 150 kg pile of ungraded


    papers because the time change made her cranky. What is the acceleration of
    the papers?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    3. A weightlifter raises a 200 kg dumbbell with an acceleration of 3 m/s². How


    much force does the weightlifter use to raise the dumbbell ?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    4. A dancer lifts his partner in the purple tutu that cost $32 above his head
    with an acceleration of 2.5 m/s². The dancer exerts a force of 200N. What
    is the mass of the partner.
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:
    5. A 70-kg runner pushes off from the starting blocks with a force of 335N.
    What is her acceleration?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    6. If a 72-kg swimmer pushes off a pool wall with a force of 370N, at what rate will
    the swimmer accelerate from a wall?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    7. How much force is needed to accelerate a Geo Metro with a mass o f 1200-kg
    to 5 m/s²?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    8. How much force is needed to provide the same acceleration for the Geo Metro in
    problem 7 if Aunt Helen who has a mass of 170-kg and Uncle Vincent who has a
    mass of 200-kg are sitting in the car?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:
    9. It takes 85N of force to accelerate a ball at a rate of 15 m/s². What is the mass of
    the ball?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    10. If your mass is 75-kg on Earth what is your weight in N?


    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    11. Your Uncle Harold’s mass is 200-kg. What is his weight in N?


    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    12. Your mass is 100-kg on Earth what is your weight? Would you expect your weight
    to be more or less on Jupiter?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    13. The acceleration due to gravity on the moon is 1.6 m/s 2 what would your
    weight be on the moon?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:
    14. A 1250 kg hovercraft is going 32 m/s down a residential street. The Systems
    Overlords of Omicron Perseii Six pull the driver over for speeding and give
    him a ticket that will cost $428 or he must give them his firstborn child.
    What was the hovercraft’s momentum as it was speeding?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    15. Ms. Stayner’s super-obese Aunt Flossie has a mass of 275-kg. Her cherry
    red Hover round scooter has a mass of 150-kg. If Aunt Flossie is going 12 m/s
    down the sidewalk (small children and Chihuahuas beware), what is her

    momentum?

    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    16. Mabel Sneidley, Aunt Flossie’s arch-enemy, has entered a scooter race
    hoping to win the grand prize of a year’s supply of Tin Roof Sundae ice cream
    and every Jerry Springer episode on DVD. If her momentum in the race is

    4800 kg x m/s and her velocity is 8 m/s what is her mass?


    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:
    17. An alien spaceship is getting ready to land in Ozark County to abduct several
    citizens in order to repopulate their dwindling home world. Each abductee can
    bring two suitcases with a combined mass that is 100-kg or less. If the momentum
    of the spaceship is 1,500,000 kgxm/s and the total mass is 30,000-kg what is the
    velocity?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    18. The aliens also decide to abduct some cows, because they mistakenly believe
    them to be our leaders. They pick up each cow in a tractor beam. If the mass
    of the cow is 1800-kg and the tractor beam pulls them at 22m/s what is the

    cow’s momentum?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

    19. Which has greater momentum (still show your work for each calculation): a 50-kg
    dolphin swimming 10.4 m/s or a 6300-kg elephant walking .11m/s?
    GIVEN WORK

    ANSWER:

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