A 16-year-old employee working for Southern Virginia College's (SVC) bookstore during the summer months is helping prepare for Fall sales. It's a good way to make extra money, and the teen is saving for a car. Books from one supplier are shipped to the SVC bookstore in large crates equipped with rope handles on all sides. On one occasion, the teen momentarily pulled with a force of 708 N at an angle of 34.2° above the horizontal to accelerate a 114-kg crate of books. The coefficient of friction between the crates and the vinyl floor is 0.587. Determine the acceleration experienced by the crate in m/s². Use the approximation g ≈ 10 m/s². Answer: m/s² (rounded to the hundredths or thousandths place)

A 16-year-old employee working for Southern Virginia College's (SVC) bookstore during the summer months is helping prepare for Fall sales. It's a good way to make extra money, and the teen is saving for a car. Books from one supplier are shipped to the SVC bookstore in large crates equipped with rope handles on all sides. On one occasion, the teen momentarily pulled with a force of 708 N at an angle of 34.2° above the horizontal to accelerate a 114-kg crate of books. The coefficient of friction between the crates and the vinyl floor is 0.587. Determine the acceleration experienced by the crate in m/s². Use the approximation g ≈ 10 m/s². Answer: m/s² (rounded to the hundredths or thousandths place)

College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

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