Impulse

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Impulse: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Linear Impulse, Linear Impulse and Coefficient of Restitution, Linear Impulse of Constant Force, Linear Impulse from F-T Diagrams and, Linear Impulse of Time Varying Force

Important Questions on Impulse

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A hammer weighing 3 kg strikes the head of a nail with a speed of 2 m s-1 and drives it 1 cm into the wall. The impulse imparted to the wall is       

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Two billiard ball each of mass m kg moving in opposite directions with speed 5 m s-1 collide and rebounds with the same speed. The magnitude of impulse imparted to each ball due to other is

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Figure shows the position–time (x-t) graph of one dimensional motion of a body of mass 500 g. What is the time interval between two consecutive impulses received by the body?

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A batsman hits back a ball of mass 0.15 kg straight in the direction of the bowler without changing its initial speed of 10 m s-1. If the ball moves in same straight line, then the impulse imparted by it (in N s) is,

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A rigid ball of mass m elastically colides a rigid wall at 60o and gets reflected as shown in the figure. Find the impulse imparted by the wall on the ball.
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The figure shows the position-time (x-t) graph of one-dimensional motion of a body of mass 500 g. The interval between two consecutive impulses received by the body would be
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1022 gas molecules each of mass 10-26 kg collide with a surface (perpendicular to it) elastically per second over an area 1 m2 with a speed 104 m s-1, the pressure exerted by the gas molecules will be of the order of

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At time t sec, a particle of mass 3 kg has position vector r=3ti^-4costj^ m. The impulse of the force during the time interval 0tπ2 is

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The magnitude of force acting on a body varies with time as shown in the figure. The magnitude of total impulse of the force on the body from t= 0 to t=16 μs is-
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A solid ball of radius 0.2 m and mass 1 kg lying at rest on a smooth horizontal surface is given an instantaneous impulse of 50 N s at point P as shown. The number of rotations made by the ball about its diameter before hitting the ground is

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A particle of mass m is moving in a straight line with momentum p. Starting at time t=0, a force F=kt acts in the same direction on the moving particle during time interval T so that its momentum changes from p to 3p. Here k is a constant. The value of T is:

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The one which does not represent a force in any context is

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A ball of mass m hits a rough floor with a velocity v as shown. The coefficient of friction is μ between the ball and the floor. Answer the questions that follow:
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Find out the final velocity of the ball just after the collision. (perfectly inelastic collision)

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A ball of mass m hits a rough floor with a velocity v as shown. The coefficient of friction is μ between the ball and the floor. Answer the questions that follow:

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Find out the impulse of the normal on the ball during the collision (for a perfectly inelastic collision)

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A ball of mass m hits a rough floor with a velocity v as shown. The coefficient of friction is μ between the ball and the floor. Answer the questions that follow:
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If the collision is perfectly inelastic, the angle made by the velocity of the ball with the horizontal after the collision is

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A body of mass 10 kg is acted upon by a given equation F=3t2-30 Newton. The initial velocity of the body is 10 m/s. The velocity of the body after 5 sec is

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The direction of impulse is

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At time t second, a particle of mass 3 kg has position vector r metre where r=(3t) i^-(4 cos t)j^ . The impulse of the force during the time interval 0tπ2is

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A body of mass 5 kg is acted on by a net force F which varies with time t as shown in graph, then the net momentum in SI units gained by the body at the end of 10 seconds is
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A body of 2 kg has an initial speed 5 m s-1 . A force acts on it for 4 seconds in the direction of motion. The force-time graph is shown in figure. The final speed of the body after 4 s is

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