1. A girl rolls a ball up an incline and allows it to return to her.
For the angle ɵ and ball
involved, the acceleration of the ball along the incline is constant at 0.25g, directed
down the incline. If the ball is released with a speed of 4 m/s, determine the distance
s it moves up the incline before reversing its direction and the total time t required
for the ball to return to the child's hand.
2. Small steel balls fall from rest through the opening at A at the steady rate of two per
second. Find the vertical separation h of two consecutive balls when the lower one
has dropped 3 meters. Neglect air resistance.
3. The car is traveling at a constant speed Va = 100 km/h on the level portion of the
road. When the 6-percent (tan ɵ = 6/100) incline is encountered, the driver does not
change the throttle setting and consequently the car decelerates at the constant rate g
sin ɵ. Determine the speed of the car (a) 10 seconds after passing point A and (b)
when s = 100 m.
4. On its takeoff roll, the airplane starts from rest and accelerates according to a = ao-
kv2, where ao is the constant acceleration resulting from the engine thrust and -kv2 is
the acceleration due to aerodynamic drag. If ao = 2 m/s2, k = 0.00004 m-1 and v is in
meters per second, determine the design length of runway required for the airplane to
reach the takeoff speed of 250 km/h if the drag term is (a) excluded and (b) included.