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Total energy of an isolated system-

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Important Questions on Work, Energy and Power

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Which of the following graphs represent kinetic energy K, potential energy U and height h from the ground for a freely falling body?
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A large block of wood of mass M=5.99 kg is hanging from two long massless cords. A bullet of mass m=10 g is fired into the block and gets embedded in it. The (block + bullet) then swing upwards, their center of mass rising a vertical distance h=9.8 cm before the (block + bullet) pendulum comes momentarily to rest at the end of its arc. The speed of the bullet just before the collision is: (Take g=9.8 m s-2)

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A sphere of mass 'm' is attached to a spring of spring constant 'k' and is held in unstretched position over an inclined plane as shown in the figure. After letting the sphere go, find the maximum length by which the spring extends, given the sphere only rolls.

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Two cars (A) and (B) of the same mass start from the same location at the same time but on different straight roads. Car (A) travels on a road that has a greater angle of inclination with horizontal compared to the road on which (B) travels. At any instant, both cars A and B have the same height above the starting point. If EA and EB are total energies of cars (A) and (B) respectively, them
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An asteroid of mass m is approaching earth, initially at a distance 10Re with speed vi. It hits Earth with a speed vf , Re and Me are radius and mass of earth), then
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A ball of mass 100 g is dropped from a height of 1 m. It loses 10 % of its energy every time when it bounces off the floor. After 3 bounces, it can reach the half-way to maximum height, its kinetic energy (up to two decimal points) would be (take g=10 ms-2).
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A body of mass 2 kg is thrown vertically up so that its kinetic energy is 490 J. g=9.8 m/s2. The height at which the kinetic energy becomes half the original value is
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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 body is moving unidirectionally under the influence of a source of constant power. The square of its displacement in time t is proportional to
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A mass of 2 kg, initially at a height of 1.2 m above an uncompressed spring with spring constant 2×104 N m-1, is released from rest to fall on the spring. Taking the acceleration due to gravity as 10 m s-2 and neglecting the air resistance, the compression of the spring in mm is
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In the given figure, the block of mass m is dropped from the point A. The expression for kinetic energy of block when it reaches point B is

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Consider two masses with m1>m2 connected by a light inextensible string that passes over a pulley of radius R and moment of inertia I about its axis of rotation. The string does not slip on the pulley and the pulley turns without friction. The two masses are released from rest separated by a vertical distance 2h. When the two masses pass each other, the speed of the masses is proportional to
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As per the given figure, two blocks each of mass 250 g are connected to a spring of spring constant 2 N m-1. If both are given velocity v in opposite directions, then maximum elongation of the spring is

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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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A body is released from a height of 30 m vertically downwards. The speed of the body at which potential energy is twice that of kinetic energy is (Acceleration due to gravity =10 m s-2)
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A mass of  0.5 kg moving with a speed of 1.5 m s-1 on a horizontal smooth surface, collides with a nearly weightless spring of force constant k=50 N m-1. The maximum compression of the spring would be

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A marble P of mass m lies at rest on the edge of a perfectly horizontal surface of a table of height h, as shown in the figure. A second identical marble Q having same mass moving at a speed u strikes it perfectly elastically. The speed acquired by marble P after the collision is (In an elastic collision, momentum as well as kinetic energy are conserved)
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An object is falling freely from a height x. After it has fallen a height x2 , it will possess:
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Show that the sum of the kinetic energy and potential energy of a freely falling body is conserved?
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From a building two balls A to B are thrown such that A is thrown upwards and B downwards (both vertically). If vA and vB are their respective velocities on reaching the ground, then