Chapter 3 Workenergy Power
Chapter 3 Workenergy Power
Chapter 3 Workenergy Power
If you pull your schoolbag The rate of doing work. The groove on the wheel is
with a force of 30 N parallel used to place ropes or strings
The rate of expending over and allows lifting of
to the ground towards your
energy. heavy loads by applying little
classroom 20 m away. How
much work will you do on and opposite force.
P = W/t
your bag? SCREW
P = E/t
Suppose you lift a 1.5 kg It is an inclined plane
book from the lowest shelf in 1 hp = 746 W
wrapped around a cylinder.
a cabinet to the forth shelf 2
Quick check
m higher. Calculate the work. Mainly used for putting
Harold races with his friends things together.
ENERGY
by running up the stairs to
EFFICIENCY
the capacity to do work. the top of the school building
13.2 m high. He finishes in Tell us how much of the input
KE and PE 2.50 minutes. What must his work/energy is converted
average power be if his mass into useful output
1J = 0.239 cal
is 35 kg? work/energy.
1kcal = 4186 J
SIMPLE MACHINES Eff = Wout/Win x 100%
POTENTIAL ENERGY
Are mechanical devices that = Eout/Ein x 100%
The energy that is stored and are used to change the
held in readiness. direction and the magnitude =Pout/Pin x 100%
of its output force to do work
The energy at rest. Quick check
on an external system.
Can either be gravitational or A machine has an energy
Building blocks of all
elastic. input of 3150 J. if 1860 J of
complicated machines.
useful work is done by the
PEg = mgh LEVER machine, then find the
amount of energy wasted
PEe =
1kx 2 Any rigid bar, pole or stick and the efficiency of the
2 that rotates at a fixed point machine.
called a fulcrum.
Quick check
INCLINED PLANE
The mass of the rock is 150
kg and the height to which it Is a slanting surface.
was lifted is 5 m. How much It makes moving a load to a
energy does the rock have? new height easier PREPARED BY: