Potential Energy and Conservative Forces

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Potential Energy and Conservative Forces: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Potential Energy, Force and Potential Energy, Calculation of Conservative Force from Potential Energy & Energy Stored in Spring etc.

Important Questions on Potential Energy and Conservative Forces

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If the potential energy corresponding to a force F=x2i^+yj^ at point A (1, 1) is UA=10 J, find the potential energy (UB) at point B (2, 3).

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A particle in a certain conservative force field has a potential energy given by U=20xyz. The force exerted on it is

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A satellite is moving in a circular orbit around the earth. The total energy of the satellite is E=-2×105 J. The amount of energy to be imparted to the satellite to transfer it to a circular orbit where its potential energy is U=-1×105 J is equal to _____×106 J

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A conservative force of (-3i^) N acts on a body of mass 3 kg. The change in potential energy of the body due to the force, when it undergoes a displacement (6i^)m is

 

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A block of mass m=2 kg is pulled by a force F=40 N upwards through a height h=2 m. Find the work done on the block by the applied force F and its weight mg. (Take, g=10 m s-2
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The potential energy is defined for a system whose elements interact via conservative force. A hypothetical system has potential energy corresponding to a conservative force is given as U=7x2y- 2x. Then
The force on system corresponding to above energy function is
 

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The variation of potential U of a body moving along X axis varies with the position x as shown in the figure.The body is in equilibrium state in

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A particle is released from rest at origin. It moves under the influence of potential field U=x2-3x.
Its kinetic energy at x=2 is

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If a particle moving in a circle of radius r has potential energy u=kr2, then find the force on the particle.

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A particle is moving in a conservative field and its potential energy is given as U=(6x-8y) J, where x and y co-ordinates are in meters. Particle has initial velocity 2i^-3j^ m s-1 at origin. At t=1 s, the angel between velocity and acceleration of particle is cos-1M52

(Given: mass of the particle is 2kg) The value of M is _____ .

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Is work done is equal to negative of change in potential energy.

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A particle of mass 2kg is attached with a spring of stiffness 72 N m-1. When block is at x=1 m it moves with maximum speed. The block moves with 24 m s-1 while passing through x=4 m. Find out the x coordinates in m where it's velocity will be zero.

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The potential energy, U in the joule of a particle of mass 2 kg moving in X  Y plane follows the law U = 2x + 4y, where (x, y) are the coordinates (in meter) of the particle. If the particle is at rest at,  (4, 4) at time t = 0 then, [choose the incorrect statement]

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A block of mass 3 kg moving with a speed 1 m s-1 collides with a spring of spring constant 100 N m-1 as shown. Portion AB of the surface is smooth while BC is rough. The minimum value of the coefficient of friction for which block will not bounce back once the spring is compressed is 1n. Find the value of n(Take g=10 m s-2)

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A uniform chain of length 2 m is kept on a table such that a length of 60 cm hangs freely from the edge of the table. The total mass of the chain is 4 kg. What is the work done in pulling the entire chain in the table?

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A particle is moved from 0, 0 to a, a under a force F=(3i^+4j^) from two paths. Path 1 is OP and path 2 is OQP. Let W1 and W2 be the work done by this force in these two paths. Then,

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If W1, W2 and W3 represent the work done in moving a particle from A to B along three different paths 1, 2 and 3, respectively (as shown), in the gravitational field of a point mass m, find the correct relation between W1, W2 and W3.

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Which of the following forces is not conservative?

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The P.E. of a particle of mass 0.1 kg moving along the x- axis is given by, U=5xx-4 J, where x is in metre. It can be concluded that the wrong option is

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In a gravitational force field a particle is taken from A   to B along different paths as shown in figure. Then

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