
What is a movable pulley system? Mention its advantage and disadvantage.
Important Questions on Newton's Laws of Motion


Two blocks and of masses and respectively are connected by a massless inextensible string passing over a frictionless pulley as shown in the figure. Block A is lifted until block B touches the ground and then block A is released. The initial height of block A is when block B just touches the ground. The maximum height reached by block from the ground after the block A falls on the ground is









An inclined plane making an angle of with the horizontal is placed in a uniform horizontal electric field as shown in the figure. A body of mass and charge is allowed to slide down from rest at a height of . If the coefficient of friction is find the time taken by the body to reach the bottom.

A student skates up a ramp that makes an angle with the horizontal. He/she starts (as shown in the figure) at the bottom of the ramp with speed and wants to turn around over a semicircular path of radius during which he/she reaches a maximum height (at point ) from the ground as shown in the figure. Assume that the energy loss is negligible and the force required for this turn at the highest point is provided by his/her weight only. Then ( is the acceleration due to gravity)




Two weights of the mass and are joined by an inextensible string of negligible mass passing over a fixed frictionless pulley. The magnitude of the acceleration of the loads is


A crate of mass is pulled vertically upwards using a rope that passes over a first pulley, under a second pulley and over a third pulley. At the other end of the rope there is a ball of mass Each pulley has mass The first and third pulleys are fixed at the same horizontal level and are apart. The second pulley is an equal distance from the first and third pulleys and hangs at a distance below them. It is not fixed, but it does not move.
What modelling assumptions need to be made? Which of these assumptions is unlikely to affect the equilibrium of the second pulley?

A block and tackle system has pulleys. If an effort of is required in the downward direction to raise a load of , then
calculate :
(1) The mechanical advantage
(2) The velocity ratio.
(3) The efficiency of the system

The mechanical advantage of the multi block movable pulley system is . The value of is _____.


