
Raindrops of radius and mass are falling with a speed of on the head of a bald person. The drops splash on the head and come to rest. Assuming equivalently, that the drops cover a distance equal to their radii on the head, estimate the force exerted by each drop on the head.

Important Questions on Newton's Laws of Motion

Both the springs shown in the figure are unstretched. If the block is displaced by a distance and released, what will be the initial acceleration?

A small block is placed on another block of mass and length . Initially, the block is near the right end of block . A constant horizontal force of is applied to the block . All the surfaces are assumed frictionless. Find the time elapsed before the block separates from .

A man has fallen into a ditch of width and two of his friends are slowly pulling him out using a light rope and two fixed pulleys as shown in the figure. Show that the force (assumed equal for both the friends) exerted by each friend on the road increases as the man moves up. Find the force when the man is at a depth .

The elevator shown in figure is descending with an acceleration of . The mass of the block is . What force is exerted by the block on the block ?

A pendulum bob of mass is suspended from the ceiling of an elevator. Find the tension in the string if the elevator
goes up with the acceleration ,
goes up with deceleration ,
goes up with a uniform velocity,
goes down with the acceleration ,
goes down with the deceleration and
goes down with uniform velocity.

A person is standing on a weighing machine placed on the floor of an elevator. The elevator starts going up with some acceleration, moves with uniform velocity for a while, and finally decelerates to stop. The maximum and the minimum weights recorded are and . Assuming that the magnitudes of the acceleration and the deceleration are the same, find
(a) the true weight of the person,
(b) the magnitude of the acceleration. Take .

