Consider a curving waterslide which you can assume is frictionless. A large child slides down the slide into the water. A smaller child decides to hop straight off the slide into the water without going down the slide. (a) Upon reaching the water, is the kinetic energy of the smaller child (i) greater, (ii) less than or (iii) the same as the larger child. (b) Same choices but now consider the speed of the smaller child. (c) During the time going from the top to the bottom how does the average acceleration of the smaller child compare to the larger one. You may use the same choices as in the first two parts.
Consider a curving waterslide which you can assume is frictionless. A large child
slides down the slide into the water. A smaller child decides to hop straight off the slide into the
water without going down the slide. (a) Upon reaching the water, is the kinetic energy of the
smaller child (i) greater, (ii) less than or (iii) the same as the larger child. (b) Same choices but
now consider the speed of the smaller child. (c) During the time going from the top to the bottom
how does the average acceleration of the smaller child compare to the larger one. You may use the
same choices as in the first two parts.
Here, we have to use conservation of energy to find the kinetic energy, velocity and acceleration of the two children.
And it is also given that:
Mass of large child > Mass of smaller child
M > m
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