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b. Show that the magnitude of the total of all the resistive forces opposite to the direction of the motion of the snowboarder is 183 N. 1 mark Section B
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c. The snowboarder does not exert any effort to increase, decrease or maintain constant speed but just slides down the slope from position A to B to C, as shown in Figure 6. At the
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c. Determine the height Anna would have to drop from so that the speed reached just before hitting the water is double the answer to part b. 2 marks m o ° =) S H FE he This page is
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Question 4 (6 marks) A small car travels in a circle of radius 50.0 m at a constant speed. Figure 2 shows the car as scen from above. direction of travel X o 3 S H T Figure 2 5 =
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Question 4 (5 marks) An engineer, Sam, is designing a new track for a high-speed racing car. The car makes a circular turn of radius 240 m on a flat track. A top view of this situa
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a. Calculate the magnitude of the total sideways force on the tyres from the horizontal road surface. 2 marks N Section B
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a. Which one of the arrows below (A-T) best shows the direction of the net force on the = car when itis in the position X, shown in Figure 2 above? 1 mark FH A. B. Cc. D. E. NEE —\
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b. Sam wishes to preserve the car tyres as much as possible. She calculates a banking angle, θ, of a curved track that would result in no sideways friction force on the tyres as th
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b. On Figure 3, draw labelled arrows to show all the separate vertical and horizontal forces acting on the car at the position X, ignoring air resistance. 3 marks
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c. Which one of the arrows (A-H) below best shows the direction of the force that a tyre exerts on the road in the position X, shown in Figure 3 above? Justify your answer. 2 marks
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Question 5 (8 marks) Vesta, shown in Figure 4 below, is one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt, which is located between the planets Mars and Jupiter. A NASA probe named
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Question 5 (4 marks) Two identical point charges, each with a charge of 3.00 μC, are fixed in positions A and C, as shown in Figure 9. Positions B and D are unoccupied. Together, p
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