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ISBN Your first physics class was undoubtedly a mechanics class, at which point you probably wondered what balls, springs, ramps, rods, and merry-go-rounds had to do in the slightest with the physics of the real world. The more advanced topics will get their own brief treatment as conquering the physics gre pdf free download. If you need a more detailed review of any of these topics, just open up any undergraduate physics text.
One of the first things you learned in the first semester of freshman year physics was probably how to balance forces using free-body diagrams. So here we go. The usual solution method is to resolve any forces F into components along the ramp Fk and perpendicular to the ramp F?
In this case, we have to resolve the gravitational force Fg, conquering the physics gre pdf free download. Again, we can check this by limiting cases. Both of these check out. Standard variants on this problem include applied forces and blocks attached to pulleys which hang over the side of the ramp, but surprisingly, neither the basic problem nor its variants have shown up on recent exams.
In any case, consider it a simple review of how to resolve forces into components by using a limiting-cases argument, as this can potentially save you a lot of time on the exam. These kinds of questions test your ability to identify precisely which forces are acting on which blocks. A foolproof, though time-consuming, method is to use free-body diagrams, where you draw each individual block and only the forces acting on it.
For example, consider placing one block on top of. If we ignore air resistance, there is absolutely no physical distinction between the block-block system, and one larger conquering the physics gre pdf free download with the combined mass of both. We could even put a massless string between the two blocks, and the argument would still hold: since the whole system must fall with acceleration g, there can be no tension in the string. Do the free-body analysis and check this yourself!
When an experimenter holds the 20 kg block stationary, the tension in the string is T1. The experiment is repeated with the 20 kg block hanging under the 5 kg block, and the tension in the string is now T2. This intuition is confirmed by a limiting-cases analysis: if the mass of the lower block is zero, then no matter the mass of the upper block, the string just dangles below the block with no tension, so the tension must be proportional to the mass of the lower block but independent of the mass of the upper one.
In order to treat both cases at once, call the mass of the top block m1 and that of the bottom block m2. The forces on the two blocks are illustrated as follows:. F is the force applied by the experimenter. Notice how the string tension acts up on the bottom block but down on the top block, and that the magnitude T is the same for both blocks. For the purposes of the GRE, this is the definition of a massless string: it carries the same tension at every point.
In the second setup, you might be asked, given friction between the two blocks, what the minimum force is such that the mass m does not fall down due to gravity, or if m is placed on the surface as well, how the force of one block on another changes depending on whether F is applied to M or m. As with the falling and hanging blocks, the key is to remember that the blocks are independent objects, so we must consider the forces conquering the physics gre pdf free download each independently.
A force of 10 N is applied horizontally to the 5 kg block. What is the minimum coefficient of static friction between the two blocks such that they move together without slipping?
We could do a full free-body diagram of all the forces in the problem, but simple physical reasoning provides a useful shortcut. Of course, we can also do a free-body analysis for the block of mass M. A block of mass 5 kg is positioned on an inclined plane at angle A force of 10 N is applied to the block, parallel to the ground.
If the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0. Assume there is no static friction. Three blocks of masses m, 2m, conquering the physics gre pdf free download 3m are suspended from the ceiling using ropes as shown in the diagram. Which of the following correctly describes the tension in the three rope segments, labeled T1T2and T3? Two blocks of masses M and m are oriented as shown in the diagram. What is the minimum force F which must be applied to M such that m remains stationary relative to M?
For almost all problems it is sufficient to know the equations of motion for a particle undergoing constant acceleration. The primary types of problem worth reviewing are projectile motion problems and problems involving reference frames.
To solve projectile motion in two dimensions, you only need the equations of motion for the x and y-coordinates of the particle. Restricting to one dimension, conquering the physics gre pdf free download, there is another useful formula relating the initial and final velocities of an object, vi and vfits acceleration a, and the change in position between the initial and final states x:.
For problems involving reference frames, just solve the problem in one frame, and then transform to the frame that the problem is asking about. For example, consider the situation in the figure above: a ball is thrown out of a car moving at constant velocity. Ignoring air resistance, in the frame of the car, the ball moves directly perpendicular to the road. In the frame of an observer at rest, the car is moving forward, so the motion of the ball is the sum.
In other words, the ball moves diagonally, both forward and away from the road, conquering the physics gre pdf free download. Suppose an astronaut is on a rocket which is moving vertically at constant speed u. When the rocket is at a height h, the astronaut throws a ball horizontally out of the rocket with velocity w. What is the speed of the ball when it hits the ground? From our kinematic formula 1. It often results in having to solve quadratic equations, and although this is simple in principle, it is usually a huge waste of time.
As a rule of thumb, only resort to kinematics if you need to know the explicit time dependence of a system. In nearly all other cases, the basic energy considerations discussed in Section 1. We will consider this in slightly more detail in Section 1. For now, consider a particle moving on a circular path.
Its acceleration vector can always be decomposed into radial and tangential components. But its radial acceleration is nonzero, and has value. Remember that this does not tell you what kind of force is acting on the body. It just tells you that if you see a body moving uniformly in a circle of radius r with constant speed v, conquering the physics gre pdf free download, then you can determine what centripetal force must be acting on it.
There are many cases of non-uniform circular motion: for example, conquering the physics gre pdf free download, a roller-coaster going around a circular loop-the-loop, or a vertical pendulum attached to a rigid conquering the physics gre pdf free download with sufficient initial speed to complete a full revolution. In these cases the angle between the gravitational force vector and the velocity vector varies as the object goes around the circle, giving a varying tangential acceleration in addition to the centripetal force, and the above formulas do not apply throughout the whole orbit.
However, the uniform circular motion equations do apply at two very special places: the top and bottom of the circle, where gravity acts purely vertically, and thus radially, such that the object is instantaneously in uniform circular motion.
At all other points in the orbit, other methods such as energy conservation must be used to find the velocity. The centripetal force equation is not so interesting on its own, so a very common class of problems involves combining it with some other type of physics.
A typical template might look roughly like this: A particle is moving in a circle. Identify the physics that is causing the centripetal force. Set the expression for this force equal to the centripetal force. Then solve for whatever quantity is requested. An electron charge e moves perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field of magnitude B. We know that the magnetic force on the electron is perpendicular to its motion see Section 2. This template occurs very frequently. A cannonball is fired with a velocity v.
At what angle from the ground must the cannonball be fired in order for it to hit an enemy that is at the same elevation, but a distance d away? If the Earth has angular rotational velocity! GME A!
Conservative forces are those for which the work done by the force is independent of the path taken between the starting and ending points, but the most useful definition although it seems tautological is a force to which you can associate a time-independent potential energy. The most common examples are gravity, spring forces, and electric forces.
A standard subset of GRE classical mechanics problems are most easily solved by straight- forward application of conservation of energy. If you want to know how fast or how far something goes, use conservation of energy.
If you want to know how much time something takes, use kinematics. On the other hand, kinematics gives you explicit formulas for position and velocity as a function of time t see equations 1. There are two important points to remember about potential energy:. The usefulness of conquering the physics gre pdf free download center of mass concept see Section 1.
There are other types of potential energy, conquering the physics gre pdf free download, but all can be summarized by a definition. Probably the only time you might have to use.
The final sign makes sense because gravita- tional potential decreases that is, becomes more negative as the satellite gets closer to the Earth; in other words, it is attracted towards the Earth. Probably the most confusing part of this whole business is the signs, which the GRE loves to exploit.
Rather than worrying about putting the signs in the right place throughout the conquering the physics gre pdf free download problem, it may be best to just compute the unsigned quantity, then fill in the sign at the end with physical reasoning. How fast is it traveling when it reaches the bottom? The quarter-circle shape is irrelevant except for the fact that it gives us the initial height: the block starts at height R above the bottom. At the top, the block is stationary, conquering the physics gre pdf free download, so its velocity is zero and there is no kinetic energy; all the energy is potential, conquering the physics gre pdf free download.
Here the obvious choice is to set the zero of gravitational potential energy at the bottom of the ramp, conquering the physics gre pdf free download, so that the potential at the top is mgR. We now apply conservation of energy:. Conveniently enough, the mass cancels out since both the kinetic and potential energies are directly proportional to m. There are a couple things to note here:.
The block could have had a nonzero speed at the top, in which case it would have nonzero kinetic energy there.
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