Tutorial-II, PH1010

August, 19, 2016

1. A small vehicle is released from rest at the top of a circular path. Determine the
angle 0 to the position where the vehicle leaves the path and becomes a projectile.
(Neglect friction and treat vehicle as a particle)
2. A fisherman in a boat catches a great white shark with a harpoon. The shark
struggles for a while and becomes limp when at a distance of 300m from the boat.
The fisherman pulls the shark by a rope attached to the harpoon. During this
operation, the boat (initially at rest) moves 45m in the direction of the shark. The
mass of the boat is 5400 kg. What is the mass of the shark? Pretend that the water
exerts no friction.

3. The force is given by the function F~ = 3 x2 y2 i + (2 x3 y + cos z) j - y sin z k.

Show that the force is conservative and compute the potential that generate it, and
then calculate the line integral of this force over the path from (0,0,0) to (1,1, ).
4. A rocket of mass 6.0 kg takes off from the ground and goes straight up. During the
first 100 meters of its ascent, the engine exerts a 80 newton upward force on the
rocket.
A. How much work does the engine do on the rocket during those first 100 meters?
B. Assuming kinetic and potential are the only kinds of energy the rocket gains, how
much kinetic energy does the rocket have at the moment its 100 meters above the
ground? (Hint: Youll need to use a formula for gravitational potential energy but
not a formula for kinetic energy. Think about the relationship between work and
energy. To keep the math less messy, approximate g as 10 m/s2 .)
C. At height 100 meters, the rocket has 1850 joules of kinetic energy. Is energy
conserved ?. Explain.
5. Consider the vector field given by
F~ =

x2

1
(x, y, z)
+ y2 + z2

, is F~ conservative? if it is, find a potential for F~ .