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STUDY MATERIAL
for
PHYSICS -IX
'Work, Energy &Power'
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Session 2023 - 24
WORK displacement.
Work done = force xdisplacement in the direction
" There is a ditference in the vay we use of force)
the term
Work' in dav to dav life and the way we W=FxS
use it in
Science. Thus,work can be defined aswork done by aforce
on an object is the produet of the magnitude of the
"Therefore, work is said to be the mental and physical
activity involving aforce and movement in direction of force ad the distance moved in the direction of
the force and an equal amount of energy is force'"
used up
when work is being done.
" After spending lots of time in studies, reading books, " In the above equation! if F= IN and s= Im, then the
drawing diagrams, attending classes, performing work done by the force will be INm,
experiments, pushing a huge rock; you may get The SI unit of work is Newton- metre (Nm) or
Completely exhausted, but you have not done any work Joule (J)
as there is no displacement. " Thus, l1 Joule is the amount of work done on an
object when a force of 1N displaces it by lm along
Scientific Coneption of Work the line of action of the force.)
1 Joule =1 newton xl metre
From the point of view of Science, following two " Work is a scalar quantity; it has only magnitude and
no direction.
conditions need to be satisfied for work to be done
)A force should act on an object Positive, Negative and Zero Wotk
oWhen the force F and displacement are in the same
() The object must be displaced.
direction, work done will be positive, i.e., work is
If any one of the above conditions does not exist, work
is not done. done by the force)
Eg: A girl pulls a trolley and the trolley moves through Eg:Aboy pulls an object towards himself.
adistance. In this way, she has exerted a force on the W=F.g
trolley and it is displaced. Hence, work is done. " When the force F and displacement are in
opposite direction (angle between direction
of force and displacement is 180°), work
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Nisapplied on a body through
0.3 A force of 80
cdone willbe nëgative. ie. york is
donë against the horizontal and displaces it
of60° with the (cos 60
ForEg:e 7malong horizontal:
What is the work done?
Force of friction acts in the direction =|/2)
the direction of opposite t0 through
displacement.
friction will be negative.
so work done by
Q.4 An object of mass 4 kg is lifted vertically
done?
What is the work
adistance of 2.5 m.
W=-F.s
When the force and an object. The object
displacement are in 0.5 A force of 10 N is acting ondirection of force.
the
perpendicular direction, work done is zer is displaced through 5 m inthis case?
Eg: Acoolie carrying load on his head, in this What isthe work done in
case,
force is acting vertically downward (weight of 5m
load)
and displacement is along horizontal direction i.e., |Initial position Final position
force and displacement are perpendicular to cach 10 N
ether.
20 m
W=0 Q.6 A child pulls a toy car through a distance of
horizontal floor. The string held in
on smooth and
child's hands makes an angle of 60 with horizontal
Work done bù aforce at'an angle surface. If the force applied by the child be 10 N,
With thedirectionNot calculate the work done by the child in pulling the car.
displacement o D i r e c toi o
ffn
o r c e
W= Fscos0
ENERGY
Numerical forpractice
Must know before numerical Energy is the ability to do work
"It is always essential for performing any mechanical
1)W =Fs 2.)W =Fscos
work"(An object having acapability to do work is
3.)W-=mgh 4.)F = mg said to possess energy. The object which does work
loses energy and the object on which work is done,
Q.1 Calculate the work done in pushing a car through gains energy)
a distance of 60 m against the force of friction which "An object having energy can exert a force on
is 125 N.
0.2 Calculate the work done in lifting 150 kg of water
another object. When it happens, energy is transferred
from the former object to the latter object. The energy
through a vertical height of 8m. Assume g= 10 m/s². of an object is measured in terms of its capacity of
doing work.
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increase with ts speet
Kiefic eriergy of an ajet
pste ) buies fired fron a
1 Bue to kirete energy. a
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drives a na1l into the
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Work done
energy mpainst
aforce is therefore stored a ood.
energy or ability to
Drie tey its mofint, it has kifietic
hen a fast nhoving ctiket ball is hits do work.
EiRinry icket, the wcket i thrown awy.
Whett aaised haniner Ialk on arail Calcultkon of Kinetie Enerisy5rraro
Deoe ofwood. indrivesthe nail into the placed en " The kinetic encrgyof an object is
mesured by the
The Sun is the bigrest natural source of
wood
encrgy to anount of work it can do before coming to rest.
US, Wecan also ret enerey from the
nuclei of atoms. "Consider an objevt of mass 'm' moving with a
the interior of the Earth and
the tides. uniform velocity 'u'.Aforce 'F isapplied on which
BNHIANCERSTanc Peco Joule displaces it through a distance 's and it attains a
as velocity 'v'.
Outstanding British physicist. Heisbest
khowi his Then, work done to increase its velocity from 'u' to
rescarch in clectricity and
hermodvnamtes, He also Verificd experimentally
tne faw of conservation of energy and discovered WFs ........ (1)
the value of the mcchanical equivalentof heat At rest
m
The unit of energy and workis Joule, and named
after him,
According to the equation of motion,
Forms of Energy -u =2 as
therefore,
" Energy exists in various forms like mechanical 2a
energy potential energy+ kinetic energy), heat
where 'a' isuniform acceleration.
energy, chemical energy, electrical energy and light
Also, from F ma,
energy.
substituting the values of F and s' in
KINETIC ENERGY equation (),
W=ma.v- u or
. tis the energy which is possessed by an object due
2a
to its motion. In other words, "Energy due to the
motlon of uhody is eulled kinetic euergy" W=1m (v' -u')
2
Kinetic energy of a body moving with a certain
velocity is equal to the work done on it to make it This is known as work- energy relation.
ucquire that velocity. If initial velocity, u 0, Then. W= 1 mv
2 5.)Total energy = PE + KE
PE = mg (h-x)
Q1A bullet of mass 8gis fired witha velocity of 80
m/s. Calculate its kinetic energy.
KE = lmy' 0.2 Calculate the kinetic energy of a ball of mass 20g
2
and momnentum 200 g- cm/s.
=l mx2gr= mgr (Since, v' =2 gx) Q.3 Suppose you have a body of mass 1 kg in your
2 hand. to what height will you raise it so that it may
Therefore, mg (h-x) + mgx = mgh acquire a gravitational potential energy of 1J? (Take
Total energy = mgh g=10 m/s')
At point C, Q.4 Aboy weighing 40 kg climbs up a vertical height
As the fall of the object continues, the potential of 200 m. calculate the amount of work done by him.
energy would decrease while the kinetic energy would how much potential energy does he gain? (Také g =
increase. When the object is about to reach the 9.8 m/s')
ground, h'=0and 'v' will be the highest. Q.5 Suppose two bodies A and B having equal masses
PE =0 are kept at heights of 'h' and 3h' respectively, Find
KE =1my = 1m (2gh)= mgh the ratio of their potential energies.
2 2 Q.6 An object of mass 10 kg is dropped from a height
Therefore, Total energy = mgh of Sm. Fill in the blanks by computing the potential
energy and kinetic energy in each case. (Take g=10
m's').
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