Eng.

Ricardo Lozano Bravo

Mechanical Work
and Kinetic Energy
 Activity

1. What is energy?
2. How does the energy manifest in our daily routine?
3. What is Work?
4. What does more work involve, moving desk or a car? Why?
5. What situation Will involve more work, moving an animal to a truck between 5 persons or
moving it using a ramp? Why?
6. What is power?
7. Write two examples os energy transformation
8. What means that a machine has more power tan another?
9. What happen to the kinetc energy when a train accelerates?
Energy

Work

Power
The Ancients
Principal sources of energy
Petroleum, Carbon, Natural Gas
 01.

Mechanical Work
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 Mechanical Work

● The mechanical work is related to

the force
● For mechanical work to exist, a
force is necessary
● This force performs the work to
carry out the displacement
● Heavy objects require more
Mechanical Work
● Large heights require more
Mechanical Work
Involved Factors

A
Application of a force

B
The displacement

C
A component over the
displacement
 Mechanical Work

● Force and distance are involved in

the definition od Mechanical Work
● If a Weightlifter holds a 5000 N bar
on his head
Work = (Force)(Distance)

W = Fd
Work = Joules (J)
Force = Newtons (N)
Distance = meters (m)
 W
F d
W
F d
W
F d
“The necessary force to move an object at
certain distance is work.”
If the forcé has an angle:

W = Fd Cos (tetha)
● If distance = 0, there is no work
● The Work = 0 if the angle and the
displacement is 90°
● If that angle is smaller than 90°, a
positive Work will be
● If that angle is bigger than 90°, a
negative Work will be
 Problem 1
1. A tug boat exerts a 5000 N force over a commercial boat at a constant velocity. Calculate the
work after 3 km
 Problem 1
1. A tug boat exerts a 5000 N force over a commercial boat at a constant velocity. Calculate the
work after 3 km
 
 Problem 2
1. A man carries his 55 kg complete drum set through the living room for 60 cm. Calculate the
work
 Problem 2
1. A man carries his 55 kg complete drum set through the living room for 60 cm. Calculate the
work

 
 Problem 3
1. 4 persons push a 800 kg car so it can work, the car needs at least 5 m to move. The work
they made was 36,000 J. Does the car working?
 Problem 3
1. 4 persons push a 800 kg car so it can work, the car needs at least 5 m to move. The work
they made was 36,000 J. Does the car working?

 
 Problem 4
1. Calculate the force that a crane needs to move over 8 levels of 2.5 m each one if it makes a
Work of 125,000 J
 Problem 4
1. Calculate the force that a crane needs to move over 8 levels of 2.5 m each one if it makes a
Work of 125,000 J

 
 Problem 5
1. A 60 kg object is pushed over a 3 m horizontal distance with a 800 N force, the friction force
coefficient between the object and the floor is about 0.15. Calculate:

a) The friction force

b) The work of 800 N force

c) The work of the friction force

d) The total work over the object

FN

800 N Ff
60 kg

FW
 Problem 6
1. Eduardo pushes Edgar with a 45 N force with a 30° angle under the horizontal. Calculate the
work of Eduardo after pushing him.
 Problem 7
1. A worker takes out a 20 kg cube from a hole at constant velocity and he makes a work of 8 J.
Calculate the depth of the hole

20
kg
 Problem 8
1. The motor of a car transmits a force of 3700 N causing a displacement of 50 m. Calculate
the mechanical work
 Problem 9
1. Calculate the force that needs to be applied to move a body over a 3 m distance if the work
has a value of 75 J

F=?
BODY

3 meters
 Problem 10
1. Calculate the work of Usain Bolt (94 kg) legs if he runs the 200 m in 19.19 seconds
 02.

Kinetic Energy
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Through the years…
Complex machines
Energy release
 Energy

● Ability to perform work

● Universe energy is constant
● “The energy can neither be created
or destroyed, It can only be
transferred or changed from one to
another”
● The units are Joules
 Types of energy

Heat energy Hydraulic energy

 Types of energy
Electric energy Chemical energy
 Types of energy
Radiant energy

Nuclear energy
 Types of energy
Wind energy

Mechanic energy
 It can also be divided into

Kinetic + Potential = Mechanic

It is generated by a Body energy according It is the addition
motion body to it is position between the potential
anf kinetic energy

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2 𝑝
 Problem 1
1. Calculate the kinetic energy of a 1000 kg truck that is running at a 120 km/h velocity
 Problem 2
1. Calculate the mass of a ball if it is throw at a 3 m/s velocity and acquires a 25 J kinetic
energy
 Problem 3
1. Calculate the velocity of a 65 kg person if he is running and acquire a 700 J kinetic energy
 Problem 4
1. Calculate the potential energy of a 500 g book if it is over a 80 cm high table
 Problem 5
1. What is the level of the parking where a car is if it has a mass of 840 kg and a potential
energy of 39,600 J. Each level is 2.4 m
 Problem 6
1. Calculate the mass of an object if it rises to a height of 12 m and acquire a 2120 J of
potential energy

12 m
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Conservation of
energy law
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Conservation of energy
Conservation of energy
 Problem 1
1. A 600 g ball is kicked upward with a 35 m/s velocity. Calculate:

a. Potential and kinetic energy initial values

b. Potential and kinetic energy at 20 m

c. Proves that mechanical energy conserve

 Problem 2
1. A 9 kg ball is thrown upward with a 90 m/s velocity. Calculate:

a. Potential and kinetic energy initial values

b. Potential and kinetic energy at 5 m

c. Proves that mechanical energy conserve

 Problem 3
1. A 1 kg football ball is kicked upward with a 2 km/h velocity. Calculate:

a. Potential and kinetic energy initial values

b. Potential and kinetic energy at 20 m

c. Proves that mechanical energy conserve