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A toy car is travelling at  50 km/hr. Child puts on the brakes when he wants to stop. The coefficient of friction between the tires and the floor is μ=0.60. What is the stopping distance of the car?

Important Questions on Potential Energy, Kinetic Energy and Gravity

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A marble P of mass m lies at rest on the edge of a perfectly horizontal surface of a table of height h, as shown in the figure. A second identical marble Q having same mass moving at a speed u strikes it perfectly elastically. The speed acquired by marble P after the collision is (In an elastic collision, momentum as well as kinetic energy are conserved)
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From a building two balls A to B are thrown such that A is thrown upwards and B downwards (both vertically). If vA and vB are their respective velocities on reaching the ground, then
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An object is dropped from a certain distance when she is at half distance she is ______ in it?
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The total energy of an object falling freely towards the ground _____.

(Choose from: decreases, remains unchanged, increases, increases in the beginning and then decreases)

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The energy possessed by an oscillating pendulum of a clock is _____.
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A toy car has a kinetic energy of 10 J. It rolls up a slope and at the top it has 3 J of gravitational potential energy and 5 J of kinetic energy. How much energy has the car lost through friction?
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A ball is thrown vertically up with a velocity 20 ms. At what height will its kinetic energy be half its original value?
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The P.E. of a body at a certain height is 200 J. The kinetic energy possessed by it when it just touches the surface of the earth is _____.

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An object is falling freely from a height x. After it has fallen a height x2 , it will possess:
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A graph of the total energy of a freely falling body from a height is:
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A mass m is used to compress a spring fixed on a high-rise platform. Then
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The sum of the potential and kinetic energies of a body is called _____ energy.
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A body is falling from a height h. After it has fallen a height h2, it will possess
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Consider the following statements and select the correct option which identifies true T and false F.

(i) When a body thrown up, its kinetic energy gradually changes into potential energy.
(ii) When a body falls down from a certain height, its potential energy remains the same.
(iii) If two unequal masses have the same momentum, then the heavier body possesses lesser kinetic energy.

  (i) (ii) (iii)
(A) T F T
(B) F T F
(C) T T F
(D) F F T