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CJ Energy Assignment 4 , Energy and 6.7 Power 55, 56, 59, 62 page192

POWER 푊표푟푘 푊 푃 = = 푇푖푚푒 푡

Units of Power:

1 / = 1

1 horse power = 746 = 550 ft lbs/sec = 33,000 ft lbs/min

Text Questions

55. One Kilowatt-hour (kWh) is the amount of work or energy generated when one kilowatt of power is supplied for a time of one hour. A kilowatt-hour is the unit of energy used by power companies when determining your electric bill. Determine the number of of Energy in one kilowatt-hour.

One kilowatt  hour is the amount of work or energy generated when one kilowatt of power is supplied for a time of one hour. From Equation 6.10a, we know that W P t . Using the fact that 1 kW = 1.0 103 J/s and that 1h = 3600 s, we have

1.0 kWh = (1.0 103 J/s)(1 h) = (1.0 103 J/s)(3600 s) = 3.6 106 J

56. Bicyclists in the Tour de France do enormous amounts of work during a race. For example, the average power per generated by Lance Armstrong (m = 75.0 kg) is 6.50 W per kilogram of his body mass. (a) How much work does he do during a 135-km race in which his average speed is 12.0 m/s? (b) Often, the work done is expressed in nutritional calories rather than in joules. Express the work done in part (a) in terms of nutritional calories, noting that 1 joule = 2.389 × 10−4 nutritional calories.

The work W done is equal to the average power P multiplied by the time t, or

W Pt (6.10a)

The average power is the average power generated per kilogram of body mass multiplied by Armstrong’s mass. The time of the race is the distance s traveled divided by the average speed v , or t s/ v (see Equation 2.1).

SOLUTION

a. Substituting into Equation 6.10a gives

3 s W 135 10 m 6 W Pt  P   6.50 75.0 kg 5.48 10 J v kg 12.0 m/s P 59. (Multiple Concepts) The cheetah is one of the fastest accelerating animals, because it can go from rest to 27 m/s (60 MPH) in 4 . If its mass is 110 kg, determine the average power developed by the cheetah during the acceleration. State your answer in (a) watts and (b) .

REASONING The average power developed by the cheetah is equal to the work done by the cheetah divided by the elapsed time (Equation 6.10a). The work, on the other hand, can be related to the change in the cheetah’s kinetic energy by the work-energy theorem, Equation 6.3.

SOLUTION

a. The average power is

W P  (6.10a) t

where W is the work done by the cheetah. This work is related to the change in the cheetah’s kinetic energy by 1122 Equation 6.3, W22 mvf0 mv , so the average power is

22 W 11mv mv P 22f0 t t 11110 kg 27 m / s22  110 kg 0 m / s 22 1.0  104 W 4.0 s

b. The power, in units of horsepower (hp), is

4 1 hp P 1.0  10 W  13 hp 745.7 W

62. A 1900-kg experiences a combined of air resistance and friction that has the same magnitude whether the car goes up or down a hill at 27 m/s. Going up a hill, the car’s engine needs to produce 47 hp more power to sustain the constant velocity than it does going down the same hill. At what angle is the hill inclined above the horizontal?

The following drawings show the free-body diagrams for the car in going both up and down the hill. The force FR is the combined force of air resistance and friction, and the FU and FD are the forces supplied by the engine in going uphill and downhill respectively. Going up the hill Going down the hill

FN FN FU FR F FR D

mg sin  mg cos  mg sin  mg cos 

Writing 's second law in the direction of motion for the car as it goes uphill, taking uphill as the positive direction, we have

F  F  mg sin  = ma  0 U R Solving for FU , we have

F  F  mg sin  U R Similarly, when the car is going downhill, Newton's second law in the direction of motion gives

FR  FD  mg sin = ma  0 so that

FD  FR  mg sin Since the car needs 47 hp more to sustain the constant uphill velocity than the constant downhill velocity, we can write

PU  PD  P where PU is the power needed to sustain the constant uphill velocity, PD is the power needed to sustain the constant downhill velocity, and P  47 hp . In terms of SI units,

746 W  P  47 hp    3.51 10 4 W  1 hp  Using Equation 6.11 ( P  Fv ), the equation PU  PD  P can be written as

FU v  FD v  P Using the expressions for and FD , we have

( FR  mg sin  )v  ( FR  mg sin  )v  P Solving for , we find

P 3.51 104 W  sin–1  sin –1   2.0   2 2mgv 2(1900 kg)(9.80 m/s )(27 m/s) NON TEXT QUESTIONS 1. A sports car is said to have 300 horsepower, how many Watts is this?

300 _ horsepower 746 _Watts   223,800 _Watts  223.8_ Kilowatts 1 1_ horsepower

2. Lance Armstrong can put out 1,000 watts of power. How does this compare to horsepower? If another rider can put out only 800 watts, is he doomed to lose the race to Lance? (This is a logic question)

No, the other rider is not doomed to loose simply because Lance can produce more power. If the other rider is lighter (has less mass) then his power to weight ratio is favored.

3. A scientist studying the power of machines only has instruments to measure velocity of an object moved by a machine and the force applied to create the velocity. Can the scientist calculate the watts output by the machine?

W   Power is defined as P  . Recall that work is defined as W  F x . Substitute the definition t   W F x of work into the definition of Power to get: P   t t   F  x P  t Notice that within the new definition of power is the definition of velocity (Δx/Δt). This is equal to Force x velocity.

4. Person A moves a box across a level surface. The force required is 100 N and the box is moved 10 meters. Person A completes this task in 100 seconds. What power is required?

  F  x (100N)(10m) P   10W t 100 _sec

5. Person B moves a box across a level surface. The force required is 100 N and the box is moved 10 meters. Person B completes this task in 50 seconds. What power is required?

  F  x (100N)(10m) P    20W t 50 _sec

6. A 200 football player runs up the hill behind the football field (a height of 25 feet) in 7 seconds. What is the power of the football player?

The football player is doing work against gravity and therefore increasing his Gravitational Potential Energy.

From the Law of Conservation of Energy: W = E2 - E1

Since State 1 has no GPE the work done is equal to the energy in State 2, GPE2.

GPE2 = mgh

Substitute this into the equation for power.

  m  g  h W  h (200lb)(25 ft) P     714 _lb ft /sec t t 7 _sec

7. A 100 pound football player runs up the hill behind the football field (a height of 25 feet) in 3.5 seconds. What is the power of the football player?

  m  g  h W  h (200lb)(25 ft) P    1,428_lb ft /sec t t 3.5_sec

8. At its top speed of 35 knots (65 km/hr) the aircraft carrier John F Kennedy experiences a friction force from the water of 11.6 x 106 Newtons. Assuming the engines are 100% efficient, what horsepower must the ships engines provide?

First convert the velocity to m/s.

65_ km 1,000 _ m 1_ hr   18_ m / s hr 1_ km 3,600 _ sec

  F x   P   F v  (11.6106 N)(18m / s)  20.8108 J t

9. The space shuttle is by far the most powerful vehicle ever devised. The overall power of a space shuttle at takeoff is about 11 GW or 11,000,000,000 watts of power. That is about 15 million horsepower! No calculation is necessary for this one, just say wow.

WOW