Exam 8: Equilibrium Ad Elasticity

A 40-kg uniform ladder that is 5.0 m long is placed against a smooth wall at a height of h = 4.0 m, as shown in the figure. The base of the ladder rests on a rough horizontal surface whose coefficient of static friction with the ladder is 0.40. An 80-kg bucket is suspended from the top rung of the ladder, just at the wall. What is the magnitude of the force that the ladder exerts on the wall?

An athlete holds a 7.5-kg shot put in his hand with his lower arm horizontal, as shown in the figure. His lower arm has a mass of 2.8 kg and its center of gravity (or center of mass) is 12 cm from the elbow-joint pivot. How much force must the extensor muscle (which is $\overrightarrow { \mathrm { F } }$ _M in the figure) in the upper arm exert on the lower arm?

A 50-kg load is suspended from a steel wire of diameter 1.0 mm and length 11.2 m. By what distance will the wire stretch? Young's modulus for steel is 2.0 × 10¹¹ Pa.

A vertical 30-cm steel rod, 1.0 cm in diameter, supports a 300-kg mass. What is the change in length of the rod caused by this mass? Young's modulus for steel is 2.0 × 10¹¹ N/m².

A solid steel column is 4.0 m long and 0.20 m in diameter. Young's modulus for this steel is 2.0 × 10¹¹ N/m². By what distance does the column shrink when a 5000-kg truck is supported by it?

Two wires are made out of the same metal, but one wire is twice as long as the other wire. Which wire will have the greatest elastic modulus?

A very light ideal spring having a spring constant (force constant) of 8.2 N/cm is used to lift a 2.2-kg tool with an upward acceleration of 3.25 m/s². If the spring has negligible length when it us not stretched, how long is it while it is pulling the tool upward?

A 320-g ball and a 400-g ball are attached to the two ends of a string that goes over a pulley with a radius of 8.7 cm. Because of friction in its axle, the pulley does not begin to rotate. What is the magnitude of the frictional torque at the axle of the pulley if the system remains at rest when the balls are released?

An object attached to a spring is pulled across a horizontal frictionless surface. If the force constant (spring constant) of the spring is 45 N/m and the spring is stretched by 0.88 m when the object is accelerating at $1.4 \mathrm {~m} / \mathrm { s } ^ { 2 }$ what is the mass of the object?

A uniform rod weighs 40 N and is 1.0 m long. It is hinged to a wall at the left end, and held in a horizontal position at the right end by a vertical string of negligible weight, as shown in the figure. What is the magnitude of the torque due to the string about a horizontal axis that passes through the hinge and is perpendicular to the rod? The hinge is very small with negligible friction.

As shown in the figure, a uniform rectangular crate 0.40 m wide and 1.0 m tall sits on a horizontal surface. The crate weighs 460 N, and its center of gravity is at its geometric center. A horizontal force of magnitude F is applied at a distance h above the floor. Friction at the floor is great enough to prevent the crate from sliding. If $h = 0.69 \mathrm {~m}$ what minimum value of F is required to make the crate start to tip over?

A 25-kg piece of equipment can be hung by steel wires of length 1.00 m, 2.00 m, or 3.00 m. If all the wires have the same diameter, which one will stretch the greatest distance?

A uniform 40-N board supports two children weighing 500 N and 350 N. If the support is at the center of the board and the 500-N child is 1.5 m from its center, how far is the 350-N child from the center?