Potential Energy

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Potential Energy: Overview

This topic explains concepts such as Potential Energy, SI Unit of Energy, Activity to Understand Potential Energy, Types of Potential Energy, etc.

Important Questions on Potential Energy

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A person does 5000 J of work in climbing a tree of height 5 m. Calculate the mass of the person.

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A body of mass 2 kg is projected vertically up with the velocity of 20 ms-1. If the energy spent in overcoming air resistance is 100 J, the maximum height attained by it is (g=10 ms-2)

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The hydraulic press given in the figure is used to raise the mass M through a height of 0.5 cm by performing 500 J of work at the small piston. The diameter of the large piston is 10 cm, while that of the smaller one is 2 cm. The mass M is:

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How to choose zero level of potential energy for a given situation?

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What is zero level of potential energy and its importance?

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What is elastic potential energy?

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What is elastic potential energy? Give some examples also.

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The SI Unit of Energy is Joule.

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What is meant by elastic potential energy?

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Ratio of potential energies of body A and body B will be

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Flying birds has

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A rod of length l and mass m fixed at one end, is hanging vertically. The other end is now raised so that the rod makes an angle 30° with horizontal line. The work done in the process will be :

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The gravitational potential energy stored in a box of 150kgf is 1.5×104J . Find the height of the box in meters. (Take 1kgf=10N).

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An electric motor of 2.5 hp is used to run water pump. The water pump takes 15 minutes to fill an overhead tank. The capacity of the tank is 1250 l and height is 20 m. Find the actual work done by the electric motor to fill the tank. Also find the efficiency of the system. (Density of water = 1000 kg m-3  )  (Mass of 1 lof water is 1 kg)

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Explain gravitational potential energy? Also derive the equation of it.

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What is gravitational potential energy? Derive its equation.

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An electric motor has a power of 2 hp and is used to run water pump. The water pump takes 15 minutes to fill an overhead tank. The capacity of the tank is 1000 l and height is 20 m. Find the actual work done by the electric motor to fill the tank. Also find the efficiency of the system. (Density of water = 1000 kg m-3  )  (Mass of 1 l of water is 1 kg)

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What is Elastic potential energy?

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State the SI unit of energy.

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A ball at rest is dropped from a height of15m. It loses 30% of its initial K.E.in striking the ground, If the height to which it bounces is x m then find the value of x