After a long day of playing and catching bugs outside, a mama cat drags her basket of sleepy kittens to bed. She drags the basket up a hill at over a total distance of 8 meters starting from rest. The hill makes an angle of 20 degrees with the horizontal, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is lk = 0.3. When she reaches the top, the basket of kittens is moving at a speed of 0.5 m/s. How much work did the mama cat do on the basket of kittens? The kittens and basket have a mass m = 3 kg. 20°

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After a long day of playing and catching bugs outside, a mama cat drags her
basket of sleepy kittens to bed. She drags the basket up a hill at over a total distance of
8 meters starting from rest. The hill makes an angle of 20 degrees with the horizontal,
and the coefficient of kinetic friction is µk = 0.3. When she reaches the top, the basket
of kittens is moving at a speed of 0.5 m/s. How much work did the mama cat do on the
basket of kittens? The kittens and basket have a mass m =
3 kg.
20°
Transcribed Image Text:After a long day of playing and catching bugs outside, a mama cat drags her basket of sleepy kittens to bed. She drags the basket up a hill at over a total distance of 8 meters starting from rest. The hill makes an angle of 20 degrees with the horizontal, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is µk = 0.3. When she reaches the top, the basket of kittens is moving at a speed of 0.5 m/s. How much work did the mama cat do on the basket of kittens? The kittens and basket have a mass m = 3 kg. 20°
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