
An elevator starts on the ground floor and stops on the floor of a high-rise building. The elevator reaches a constant speed by the time it reaches the floor and decelerates to rest between the and floors. Describe the energy transformations taking place between the and floors.

Important Questions on Mechanics
A mass of slides down a frictionless incline of to the horizontal. The mass starts from rest from a height of .
Sketch a graph of the kinetic and potential energies of the mass as a function of time.

A mass of slides down a frictionless incline of to the horizontal. The mass starts from rest from a height of .
Sketch a graph of kinetic energy and potential energies of the mass as a function of distance travelled along the incline.

A mass of slides down a frictionless incline of to the horizontal. The mass starts from rest from a height of .
On each graph, sketch the sum of the potential and kinetic energies.

A mass is being pulled up an inclined plane of angle by a rope along the plane.
Find is the tension in the rope if the mass moves up at constant speed .

A mass is being pulled up an inclined plane of angle by a rope along the plane.
Calculate is the work done by the tension when the mass is moves up a distance of along the plane.

A mass is being pulled up an inclined plane of angle by a rope along the plane.
Find is the work done by the weight of the mass.

A mass is being pulled up an inclined plane of angle by a rope along the plane.
Find is the work done by the normal reaction force on the mass.

A mass is being pulled up an inclined plane of angle by a rope along the plane.
What is the net work done on the mass
