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What is a movable pulley system? Mention its advantage and disadvantage.

Important Questions on Newton's Laws of Motion

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A body is projected vertically upwards with a velocity 'u' from the top of a tower. Time taken by it to reach the ground is 'n' times the time taken by it to reach the highest point in its path. Height of the tower is
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Two blocks of masses m1 and m2 are suspended by a massless string passing over a smooth pulley. If the acceleration of the system is g8,then the ratio of the masses m2 m1=
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Two blocks A and B of masses 1.5 kg and 0.5 kg 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 80 cm when block B just touches the ground. The maximum height reached by block B from the ground after the block A falls on the ground is

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A stone is dropped from the top of a building. When it crosses a point 5 m below the top, another stone starts to fall from a point 25 m below the top. Both stones reach the bottom of building simultaneously. The height of the building is :
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On a smooth plane surface (figure) two block A and B are accelerated rightwards by applying a force 15 N on A. If mass of B is twice that of A, the force on B is

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A box filled with water has a small hole on its side near the bottom. It is dropped from the top of a tower. As it falls, a camera attached on the side of the box records the shape of the water stream coming out of the hole. The resulting video will show
 
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A block of mass 48 kg kept on a smooth horizontal surface is pulled by a rope of length 4 m by a horizontal force of 25 N applied to the other end. If the linear density of the rope is 0.5 kg m-1, the force acting on the block is
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A person jumps from the 5th  storey of a building with load on his head. The weight experienced by him before reaching the earth will be
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A ball is thrown vertically downward with a velocity of 20 m s-1 from the top of a tower. It hits the ground after some time with a velocity of 80 m s-1. The height of the tower is: g=10 m s-2
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Two bodies of mass 4 kg and 6 kg are tied to the ends of a massless string. The string passes over a pulley which is frictionless (see figure). The acceleration of the system in terms of acceleration due to gravity g is:
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An inclined plane making an angle of 30° with the horizontal is placed in a uniform horizontal electric field 200NC as shown in the figure. A body of mass 1 kg and charge 5 mC is allowed to slide down from rest at a height of 1 m. If the coefficient of friction is 0.2, find the time taken by the body to reach the bottom.
g=9.8 m s-2; sin30°=12; cos30°=32

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A student skates up a ramp that makes an angle 30° with the horizontal. He/she starts (as shown in the figure) at the bottom of the ramp with speed v0 and wants to turn around over a semicircular path xyz of radius R during which he/she reaches a maximum height h (at point y) 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 (g is the acceleration due to gravity)

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An object takes n times as much time to slide down a 45° rough inclined plane as it takes to slide down a perfectly smooth 45° inclined plane. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the rough plane and the object is
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A block of mass m is placed on a smooth inclined wedge ABC of inclination θ as shown in the figure. The wedge is given an acceleration a towards the right. The relation between a and θ for the block to remain stationary on the wedge is

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Two weights of the mass m1 and m2>m1 are joined by an inextensible string of negligible mass passing over a fixed frictionless pulley. The magnitude of the acceleration of the loads is

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Deduce the relation between the acceleration of the load and effort  in a movable pulley system. 
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A crate of mass 20 kg 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 30 kg. Each pulley has mass m kg. The first and third pulleys are fixed at the same horizontal level and are 4 m apart. The second pulley is an equal distance from the first and third pulleys and hangs at a distance 2 m 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?

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A block and tackle system has 5 pulleys. If an effort of 1000 N is required in the downward direction to raise a load of 4500 N, then 

calculate :

(1) The mechanical advantage

(2) The velocity ratio.

(3) The efficiency of the system

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