person pushes a box up an incline with constant force, and after calculating how much work they did on the box summed with how much work gravity did on the box they find a non-zero positive result, i.e. ?person>Wgravity. What are two explanations of where the “extra” work done by the person on the box went?

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7. A person pushes a box up an incline with constant force, and after calculating how much work they did on the box summed with how much work gravity did on the box they find a non-zero positive result, i.e. ?person>Wgravity. What are two explanations of where the “extra” work done by the person on the box went?

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Given work done by the person is greater than the work done by gravity.

When we move a body on an inclined plane we face two forces. 

  • One gravitational force and
  • Second frictional force

Therefore we have to to spend some work against the gravity and some work against the frictional force.

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