1. An electric motor is 75% efficient. It is used to raise a weight of 1000N a vertical distance of 5m in 10s. a. Given its efficiency, at what rate must power be supplied to the motor. Show solutions. b. What happens to the energy used to raise the weight?

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1. An electric motor is 75% efficient. It is used to raise a weight of 1000N a vertical distance of 5m in 10s.

a. Given its efficiency, at what rate must power be supplied to the motor. Show solutions.

b. What happens to the energy used to raise the weight?

2. The escalator at Highgate underground station transports people up and sown a vertical height of 30m in one minute.

(a) Calculate the power exerted by the motor in raising each traveler.

At busy times, the escalator moves more than 120 people up the stairs every minute.
(b) What is the minimum amount of power required from the electric motors that drive the escalators.

 

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