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The frictional force is an example of internal force.

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Important Questions on Laws of Motion

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A 60HP electric motor lifts an elevator having a maximum total load capacity of 2000 kg. If the frictional force on the elevator is 4000 N, the speed of the elevator at full load is close to : 1 HP=746 W, g=10 m s-2
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A block of mass 10 kg is in contact against the inner wall of a hollow cylindrical drum of radius 1 m. The coefficient of friction between the block and the inner wall of the cylinder is 0.1. The minimum angular velocity needed for the cylinder to keep the block stationary when the cylinder is vertical and rotating about its axis will be  g=10  m s-2,
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A ball is thrown upward with an initial velocity V0 from the surface of the earth. The motion of the ball is affected by a drag force equal to  mγv2 (where m is mass of the ball, v is its instantaneous velocity and γ is a constant). Time taken by the ball to rise to its zenith is:
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A rod of weight W is supported by two parallel knife edges A and B and is in equilibrium in a horizontal position. The knives are at a distance d from each other. The centre of mass of the rod is at distance x from A . the normal reaction on A is:
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An elevator in a building can carry a maximum of 10 persons, with the average mass of each person being 68 kg . The mass of the elevator itself is 920 kg and it moves with a constant speed of 3 m/s . The frictional force opposing the motion is 6000 N . If the elevator is moving up with its full capacity, the power delivered by the motor to the elevator g=10m/s2 must be at least:
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A particle moving with velocity V is acted by three forces shown by the vector triangle PQR. The velocity of the particle will
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A particle moving in the xy-plane experiences a velocity dependent force F=kυyi^+υxj^, where υx and υy are the x and y components of its velocity υ. If a is the acceleration of the particle, then which of the following statements is true for the particle ?
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An elevator of mass m  is connected to a rope which pulls the elevator up with a maximum acceleration equal to a . If the maximum bearable tension in the rope is T , then for a safe journey the minimum diameter of the rope is [ g = acceleration due to gravity]
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On heating water, bubbles being formed at the bottom of the vessel detatch and rise. Take the bubbles to be spheres of radius R and making a circular contact of radius r with the bottom of the vessel. If r << R, and the surface tension of water is T, value of r just before bubbles detatch is :
(density of water is ρ w )

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A force of (2i^+3j^) N acts on a body of mass 1kg which is at rest initially. The acceleration of the body is
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A mass of 10 kg is suspended vertically by a rope from the roof. When a horizontal force is applied on the rope at some point, the rope deviated at an angle of 45° at the roof point. If the suspended mass is at equilibrium, the magnitude of the force applied is g=10 m s-2
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A body of mass 2kg is moving with a momentum of 10kg ms-1. The force needed to increase its kinetic energy by four times in 10 seconds is
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A mass of 10 kg is suspended by a rope of length 4 m, from the ceiling. A force F is applied horizontally at the mid-point of the rope such that the top half of the rope makes an angle of 45° with the vertical. Then F equals: (Take g=10 m s-2 and the rope to be massless)
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A machine gun has a mass 5 kg. It fires 50 gram bullets at the rate of 30 bullets per minute at a speed of 400 m s-1. What force is required to keep the gun in position?
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A body of mass m is moving in a straight line with momentum p. Starting at time t=0, a force F=at acts in the same direction on the moving particle during time interval of T. So that its momentum changes from p to 2p. The value of T is
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A block A of mass 100 kg rests on another block B of mass 200 kg and is tied to a wall as shown in the figure. The coefficient of friction between A and B is 0.2 and that between B and ground is 0.3. The minimum force required to move the block B is g=10 m s-2

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Two masses m1=5 kg and m2=10 kg, connected by an inextensible string over a frictionless pulley, are moving as shown in the figure. The coefficient of friction of horizontal surface is 0.15. The minimum weight m that should be put on top of m2 to stop the motion is:

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A stream of water flowing horizontally with a speed of 15 ms-1 gushes out of a tube of cross-sectional area 10-2 m2 and hits a vertical wall nearby. The force exerted on the wall by the impact of water (assuming it does not rebound) is
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In a tug war contest, two man pull on a horizontal rope from opposite sides. The winner will be the man who