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Force Worksheet
Directions: Complete the following problems making sure to show your work. Make
sure to include the proper units and circle your final answer.
1) A net force of 2500 N acts on an African male elephant with a mass of 7000 kg. What is
the acceleration of the African male elephant?
2) A physics book with a mass of 2.8 kg is pushed along a table with a net force of 1 N.
What is the book's acceleration?
3) A baseball with a mass of 0.145 kg has a net force of 1.2 N acting on it. What is the
baseball's acceleration?
4) A bowling ball with a mass of 7.3 kg has a net force of 1.5 N acting on it. What is the
bowling ball's acceleration?
5) A l0 kg wagon has an acceleration of 2.5 m/s2. What is its force?
6) A dancer lifts his partner above his head with an acceleration of 2.8m/s2. The dancer
exerts a force of 230N. What is the mass of the partner?
7) What net force is required to accelerate a car at a rate of 2 m/s/s if the car has a mass of
3,000 kg?
8) A 10 kg bowling ball would require what force to accelerate down an alleyway at a rate
of 3 m/s/s?
9) Sally has a car that accelerates at 5m/s/s. If the car has a mass of 1000 kg, how much
force does the car produce?
10) What is the mass of a falling rock if it produces a force of 147 N, falling at the rate of
gravity which is 9.8 m/s/s?
11) What is the mass of a truck if it produces a force of 14,000 N while accelerating at a rate
of 5 m/s/s?
12) What is the acceleration of a softball if it has a mass of 0.5 kg and hits the catcher’s
glove with a force of 25 N?
13) Your own car has a mass of 2000 kg. If your car produces a force of 5000 N, how fast
will it accelerate?
14) How much force is needed to accelerate a truck with a mass of 2000 kg at a rate of 3
m/s/s?
15) What is the mass of an object that requires 15N to accelerate it at a rate of 1.5 m/s/s?
16) What is the rate of acceleration of a 2000 kg truck if a force of 4200 N is used to make it
start moving forward?