Conservation of Energy

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Conservation of Energy: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Conservation of Mechanical Energy & Conservation of Energy in Free Fall etc.

Important Questions on Conservation of Energy

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For a particle in SHM, the K.E. at any instant is given by K=K0cos2ωt .The total energy of SHM is 

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 An object is projected with a velocity 8gR3 from earth. The velocity of the object, at the maximum height reached by it will be 

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Find the height at which the string becomes stack for the following diagram.

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If a ball is allowed to fall freely under the influence of gravity, its

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A spring is held vertically and if a load is attached to it, it elongates by a distance d. If the body attched to the spring is allowed to fall freely, the maximum compression produced in the spring is

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Consider the situation shown in the figure. The system is released rest and the block A travels a distance 5 m in downward direction g=10 m s-2)
Whe work done by tension on the block B

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A mass of 1 kg falls from a height of 1 m and lands on a mass less platform supported by a spring having spring constant 15 N m-1 as shown in the figure. The maximum compression of the spring is.
(acceleration due to gravity =10 m s-2)

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A block of mass 2 kg is released from the top of an inclined smooth surface as shown in figure. If spring constant of spring is 100 N m-1 and block comes to rest after compressing the spring by 1 m, then the distance travelled by block before it comes to rest is

g=10 m s-2

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A man is supplying a power of 500 W at an instant on a massless string as shown in figure. If at that instant speed of block is 10 m s-1, and increasing at the rate of 10 m s-2. Then the mass of block is

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A sphere of mass m makes SHM in a hemispherical bowl ABC and it moves from A to C and back to A via ABC, so that PB=h. If acceleration due to gravity is g, the speed of the ball when it just crosses the point B is

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On a smooth curved track shown in the diagram, an small particle is projected from the point O such that it just manages to reach the point P. Assume that particle always remain contact with track. The velocity of the particle on reaching the point P will be equal to :

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A particle of charge Q moves with speed v directly towards another particle of charge Q' which is connected to a light spring. The far end of the spring is fixed to a smooth horizontal table. Let P and E be the total momentum and energy of the charge-spring system respectively. Ignore gravity. Then

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The bob of a simple pendulum of length 4 m is held so that the string is horizontal and then let go. The velocity of the bob when it reaches the lowest position is (Take g=9.8 m s-2)

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Total energy of an isolated system-

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A ball is thrown vertically up with a velocity 20 ms. At what height will its kinetic energy be half its original value?

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An object is dropped from a certain distance when she is at half distance she is ______ in it?

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A particle slides down along an inclined plane AC. If the plane is frictionless, kinetic energy of particle at C is

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A body of mass 0.15 kg moving with a velocity of 15 m s-1 comes to rest when it hits a spring that is fixed at another end. If the force constant of the spring is 1500 N m-1, the compression in the spring is ______

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A block of mass M in the  Fig. moving on the frictionless horizontal surface collides with the spring of spring constant

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k and compresses it by length L. The maximum momentum of the block after collision is

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The potential energy of a 1 kg particle is free to move along x-axis is given by V(x)=x44x22 J . The total mechanical energy of the particle is 2 J Then the maximum speed (in ms-1) is