All the exercises of the chapter, worked step-by-step, in order of appearance in the book: first the guided exercises and in-text problems, then the end-of-chapter problems (numerical, conceptual, true/false, ranking, graphical, estimation).
In-text exercises and problems
- Worked exercise — two boxes with a spring and a pulley
- Worked exercise — the bulletproof vest
- Worked exercise — two boxes in equilibrium
- Scales in a lift
- Pendulum on an accelerating vehicle
- Worked exercise — block on an inclined plane with 3 forces
- Surfer on a wave
- Spring with two hanging masses
End-of-chapter problems
- Box pushed without friction
- Acceleration from a net force
- True or false on forces and motion
- Two blocks tied together on a smooth plane
- Car against a wall: average force
- Book on the table: action-reaction pairs
- Coefficient of static friction
- Atwood machine: symbolic solution
- Hooke’s law from experimental data
- Descent on an inclined plane with friction
- Ranking of accelerations
- The passenger and the ball on the train
- Kinetic friction from the a–F graph
- Three blocks connected and two tensions
- The goods lift: scale graph
- Box hanging from the ceiling
- Two blocks tied together with an applied force
- Spring scale in a lift
- True or false on Newton’s laws
- Ranking of applied forces
- The horse and the cart
- Atwood machine: numerical values
- Jump from a chair: average force
- Car braking and the seatbelt
- Step force and v–t graph
- The book on the table: forces and pairs
- Lift at the first instant
- Seatbelt
- Pulling the tablecloth
- Accelerations at fixed force
- Maximum static friction
- Two bodies connected by a pulley
- Inclined plane with kinetic friction
- Minimum force to move a block
- Conical pendulum
- Two springs in parallel
- From the diagram to the applied force
- Scales in vertical motion
- Two masses at the same acceleration
- Double gravity
- Zero static friction
- One-way third law
- Lift with scale and spring
- Pendulum in a braking train
- High jump and bending
- Box with a piecewise force
- Force to move a desk
- Disturbed Atwood machine