Potential Energy and Conservative Forces
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
If the potential energy corresponding to a force at point is , find the potential energy () at point ().

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

A satellite is moving in a circular orbit around the earth. The total energy of the satellite is. The amount of energy to be imparted to the satellite to transfer it to a circular orbit where its potential energy is is equal to _____

A conservative force of () acts on a body of mass . The change in potential energy of the body due to the force, when it undergoes a displacement is

A block of mass is pulled by a force upwards through a height . Find the work done on the block by the applied force and its weight . (Take, )

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 . Then
The force on system corresponding to above energy function is

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

A particle is released from rest at origin. It moves under the influence of potential field .
Its kinetic energy at is

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

A particle is moving in a conservative field and its potential energy is given as , where and co-ordinates are in meters. Particle has initial velocity at origin. At , the angel between velocity and acceleration of particle is
(Given: mass of the particle is ) The value of is _____ .

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

A particle of mass is attached with a spring of stiffness . When block is at it moves with maximum speed. The block moves with while passing through . Find out the coordinates in where it's velocity will be zero.

The potential energy, in the joule of a particle of mass moving in plane follows the law where are the coordinates (in meter) of the particle. If the particle is at rest at, at time then, [choose the incorrect statement]

A block of mass moving with a speed collides with a spring of spring constant as shown. Portion of the surface is smooth while is rough. The minimum value of the coefficient of friction for which block will not bounce back once the spring is compressed is . Find the value of (Take )

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

A particle is moved from to under a force from two paths. Path is and path is . Let and be the work done by this force in these two paths. Then,

If and represent the work done in moving a particle from to along three different paths and , respectively (as shown), in the gravitational field of a point mass , find the correct relation between and .

Which of the following forces is not conservative?

The of a particle of mass moving along the - axis is given by, , where is in . It can be concluded that the wrong option is

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