A body of mass $2\, kg$ moving with a velocity of $3\, m/sec$ collides head on with a body of mass $1\, kg$ moving in opposite direction with a velocity of $4\, m/sec$. After collision, two bodies stick together and move with a common velocity which in $m/sec$ is equal to
$1/4$
$1/3$
$2/3$
$3/4$
Answer the following :
$(a)$ The casing of a rocket in flight burns up due to friction. At whose expense is the heat energy required for burning obtained? The rocket or the atmosphere?
$(b)$ Comets move around the sun in highly elliptical orbits. The gravitational force on the comet due to the sun is not normal to the comet’s velocity in general. Yet the work done by the gravitational force over every complete orbit of the comet is zero. Why ?
$(c)$ An artificial satellite orbiting the earth in very thin atmosphere loses its energy gradually due to dissipation against atmospheric resistance, however small. Why then does its speed increase progressively as it comes closer and closer to the earth ?
$(d)$ In Figure $(i)$ the man walks $2\; m$ carrying a mass of $15\; kg$ on his hands. In Figure $(ii)$, he walks the same distance pulling the rope behind him. The rope goes over a pulley, and a mass of $15\; kg$ hangs at its other end. In which case is the work done greater ?
The energy required to accelerate a car from $10 \,m/s$ to $20\, m/s$ is how many times the energy required to accelerate the car from rest to $10\, m/s$
$2$ particles of mass $1\,Kg$ and $5\,kg$ have same momentum, calculate ratio of their $K.E.$
Answer carefully, with reasons :
$(a)$ In an elastic collision of two billiard balls, is the total kinetic energy conserved during the short time of collision of the balls (i.e. when they are in contact) ?
$(b)$ Is the total linear momentum conserved during the short time of an elastic collision of two balls ?
$(c)$ What are the answers to $(a)$ and $(b)$ for an inelastic collision ?
$(d)$ If the potential energy of two billiard balls depends only on the separation distance between their centres, is the collision elastic or inelastic ?
(Note, we are talking here of potential energy corresponding to the force during collision, not gravitational potential energy).
A mass of $0.5\, kg$ moving with a speed of $1.5\, m/s$ on a horizontal smooth surface, collides with a nearly weightless spring of force constant $k=50\,N/m$. The maximum compression of the spring would be ................. $\mathrm{m}$