Explain why a body moving in a circle at constant speed is said to be accelerating.
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Original Khojo Papers practice question — not from a past board paper.
Banking tilts the road so that a component of the normal reaction supplies part or all of the centripetal force, so the vehicle can turn without relying entirely on friction. The angle satisfies tan θ = v2/rg, so it depends on the design speed and the radius of the curve, and not on the mass of the vehicle.
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At the design speed no friction is needed at all.
From the same topic and chapter, at a similar level.
Explain why a body moving in a circle at constant speed is said to be accelerating.
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State the law of conservation of linear momentum and derive it from Newton's third law.
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A body of mass 2 kg moving at 5 m s−1 is brought to rest in 0.5 s. Find the retarding force and the impulse.
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A block of mass 5 kg rests on a horizontal surface whose coefficient of static friction is 0.4. Find the least horizontal force needed to move it. Take g = 10 m s−2.
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A body of mass 10 kg is pulled along a rough horizontal surface by a force of 40 N. If the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.2, find the acceleration. Take g = 10 m s−2.
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A car of mass 1,000 kg rounds a level curve of radius 50 m at 10 m s−1. Find the centripetal force needed and the minimum coefficient of friction. Take g = 10 m s−2.
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