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Work and Energy
Energy ~ an ability to accomplish change
Work: a measure of the change produced by a force
Work = “a force through the displacement”
portion of the force along displacement × displacement
W = Fx x =F cos q x
F
F cos q
x
W = F cos q x
F
F cos q
F
F
F
x
F cos 90 = F0
x
W=0
Units: 1Newton . 1 meter = 1 joule = 1J
1 ft-lb =1.356 J
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W=Fx
F
Example: A child pulls a toy 2.00 m across the floor by a string, applying a force of constant
magnitude 0.800 N. During the first meter, the string is parallel to the floor. During the
second meter the string makes a 30º angle with the horizontal direction. What is the total
work done by the child on the toy?
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Work and Energy with varying forces
Take average force, small sub-intervals Dxi
W  F1 Dx1  F2 Dx 2    FN Dx N
F
areas of rectangles
W  lim
Dx 0
 F Dx
i
F3
F2
F1
i
x2
  Fdx
x1
Dx2
area under curve!
Constant Force – near trivial example
W = F.(x2-x1)
F
x1
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x2
x
Dx3
Dx4
…
DxN
x
Varying Force Example: Force of a Spring (GET OUT SOME SPRINGS!)
|F| = kx (Hooke’s “Law”)
k is the spring constant or force constant of that spring
F
From un-stretched to stretched/compressed by x:
area under curve = area of right triangle
W=½
“height”.
“width” = ½ kx x = ½
kx2
Example: How much work is required to extend an exercise spring by 45 cm if the
spring constant k is 310 n/m? What force is required to stretch it this far?
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x
Energy: the capacity to do work
•Kinetic Energy: energy associated with motion
•Potential Energy: energy associated with position
•Rest Energy, Thermal Energy, chemical energy...
Kinetic Energy for an object under a constant force
from motion in a straight line
W  Fx  ma x
v2  v1  2ax
2
2
(v - v1 )
W  Fx  max   m 2
2
1
1
2
2
W  mv2 - mv1
2
2
1
KE  mv 2
2
the work-energy theorem
W  DKE
2
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Example: A baseball-player throws a 0.170 kg baseball at a speed of 36.0 m/s. What is its
kinetic energy?
Example: How much work is done to move a 1840 kg Jaguar XJ6 automobile from rest to a
speed of 27.0 m/s on a level road? If this takes place of a distance of 117 m, what is the average
force?
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Potential Energy
energy associated with position
example: gravitational potential energy
Work done to raise an object a height h: W = mgh
= Work done by gravity on object if the object descends a height h.
identify source of work as Potential Energy
PE = mgh
other types of potential energy
electrical, magnetic, gravitational, compression of spring ...
Example: How much potential energy does a 7.5 kg ceiling fan have with respect to the floor
when it is 3.00 m above it?
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Example: A 500 kg mass of a pile driver is dropped from a height of 3m onto a piling in the
ground. The impact drives the piling 1.00 cm deeper into the ground. If the original potential
energy of the mass is converted into work in driving the piling into the ground, what is the
frictional force acting on the piling?
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Elastic Potential Energy
energy stored in stretching or compressing a spring
Work done compressing: W = ½ k x2
= work that can be extracted by releasing the spring
PE = ½ k x2
Example: A 1550 kg Pontiac Gran Prix is supported by 4 coil springs, each with a spring
constant of 7.00E4 N/m. How much are the springs compressed by the weight of the car? How
much energy is stored in this compression?
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Conservation of Energy
Conservation Principle: For an isolated system, a conserved quantity
keeps the same value no matter what changes the system undergoes.
Conservative Forces: Work done can be written as a change in potential
energy.
Conservation of Mechanical Energy: The total amount of energy in an
isolated system always remains constant, even though energy
transformations from one form to another may occur.
Usually consider initial and final times:
KEi +PEi = KEf +PEf
or
Ei = Ef
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Example: a plant is knocked off a window sill, where it falls from rest to the ground 5.27 m
below. How fast is it going when it hits the ground?
demo: rollercoaster and 4 track race
KE1  PE1  KE2  PE2
0  mgh1 
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1 2
mv  mgh2
2
Example: A block of mass m is released from rest and slides down a frictionless track of height
h. At the bottom of the track is a spring with a spring constant k attached to a wall. How far
will the spring be compressed at the maximum point of compression?
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(simplified) Example: A roller coaster starts at the top of a 48 m tall hill at an initial speed 0f 0.50 m/s before it plunges to
its low point 3m above the ground. From there it climbs a smaller hill only 16 m high.
What is the speed of the train as it crests this hill?
The curvature of the crest of the hill has a curvature of radius 20 m.
What is the centripetal acceleration at the top of the hill?
What force must be exerted on a 1.5 kg video camera being held by one of the riders?
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Nonconservative forces
Wc +Wnc = DKE
so
Wnc = DE = DKE+DPE
Friction is loss of energy
Einitial = Efinal + |Wfriction|
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Example: A 55kg carton with an initial speed pf 0.45 m/s slides down a ramp inclined at an angle of 23 degrees. If the
coefficient of friction is 0.24, how fast will the carton be moving after it has traveled a distance of 2.1 m down the ramp?
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Power: the rate at which work is done
Power 
P=
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DW
Dt
work done
time interval
units : Watts (W ) 
Joules  J 
 
second  s 
Example: A 70 kg person runs up a staircase 3.0 m high in 3.5 s. How much power does he develop climbing the stairs?
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