The Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held in England where a wheel of cheese is rolled down a hill while people chase after it competing on who can catch it first. If the hill has a height of 69.6 m and the cheese starts at rest, what is the cheese’s velocity at the bottom of the hill? Ignore friction
The Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held in England where a wheel of cheese is rolled down a hill while people chase after it competing on who can catch it first. If the hill has a height of 69.6 m and the cheese starts at rest, what is the cheese’s velocity at the bottom of the hill? Ignore friction.
Height of the hill is h = 69.6 m
Rolling down a wheel of cheese, while people chase after it competing on who can catch it first now when the wheel was at the top of the hill its potential energy will be:
PE =mgh ..........1
at this point the velocity was zero hence the kinetic energy was zero, now at the bottom of the hill the the height will be zero and the velocity of the cheese wheel is maximum, so the kinetic energy is maximum at the bottom
KE =
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