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Law of Conservation of Energy is considered one the most difficult concept.
40 Questions around this concept.
A mass of M kg is suspended by a weightless string . The horizontal force that is required to displace it until the string making an angle of 45o with the initial vertical direction is
A particle moves in a straight line with retardation proportional to its displacement. Its loss of kinetic energy for any displacement x is proportional to :
A particle is acted upon by a force of constant magnitude which is always perpendicular to the velocity of the particle, the motion of the particle takes place in a plane. It follows that :
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Consider a rubber ball freely falling from a height onto a horizontal elastic plate. Assume that the duration of collision is negligible and the collision with the plate is totally elastic. Then the velocity as a function of time and the height as function of time will be
The block of mass M moving on the frictionless horizontal surface collides with the spring of spring constant K and compresses it by length L.The maximum momentum of the block after collision is
A spherical ball of mass 20 kg is stationary at the top of a hill of height 100 m. It rolls down a smooth surface to the ground, then climbs up another hill of height 30 m and finally rolls down to a horizontal base at a height of 20 m above the ground. The velocity attained by the ball is
Two hydrogen atoms are in excited state with electrons residing in n = 2. First one is moving towards left and emits a photon of energy towards right. Second one is moving towards right with same speed and emits a photon of energy towards right. Taking recoil of nucleus into account during emission process
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The potential energy of a 1 kg particle free to move along the x-axis is given by
The total mechanical energy of the particle 2 J. Then, the maximum speed (in m/s) is :
A block of mass M is attached to the lower end of a vertical spring. The spring is hung from a ceiling and has force constant value k. The mass is released from rest with the spring initially unstretched. The maximum extension produced in the length of the spring will be:
The potential energy of a system increases if work is done
Conservation of Mechanical Energy-
Mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy.
According to Conservation of Mechanical Energy, If only conservative forces act on a system,
the total mechanical energy remains constant.
By work-energy theorem we have or ....(1)
And the change in potential energy in a conservative field is
Or, ……..(2)
From equation (1) and (2)
We get,
Means,
Or, E is constant in a conservative field
i.e; if the kinetic energy of the body increases its potential energy will decrease by an equal amount and vice versa.
Law of conservation of total energy-
If some non-conservative force like friction is also acting on the particle, the mechanical energy is no more constant.
It changes by the amount of work done by non-conservative force.
i.e;
The lost energy is transformed into heat or in other forms of energy. But the total energy remains constant.
So, according to the Law of conservation of total energy “Energy may be transformed from one kind to another but it cannot be created or destroyed. The total energy in an isolated system is constant.”
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