This is a book problem I was given to study but I'm confused on how to approach it: A mass m = 13 kg is pulled along a horizontal floor with NO friction for a distance d =8.3 m. Then the mass is pulled up an incline that makes an angle θ = 39° with the horizontal and has a coefficient of kinetic friction μk = 0.37. The entire time the massless rope used to pull the block is pulled parallel to the incline at an angle of θ = 39° (thus on the incline it is parallel to the surface) and has a tension T =58 N. What is the work done by friction after the block has traveled a distance x=2.6m up the incline? The work done by gravity? I emailed my professor and he said to take the x=2.6m as the distance traveled along the ramp but I don't know what I am supposed to do with that.
This is a book problem I was given to study but I'm confused on how to approach it:
A mass m = 13 kg is pulled along a horizontal floor with NO friction for a distance d =8.3 m. Then the mass is pulled up an incline that makes an angle θ = 39° with the horizontal and has a coefficient of kinetic friction μk = 0.37. The entire time the massless rope used to pull the block is pulled parallel to the incline at an angle of θ = 39° (thus on the incline it is parallel to the surface) and has a tension T =58 N. What is the work done by friction after the block has traveled a distance x=2.6m up the incline? The work done by gravity?
I emailed my professor and he said to take the x=2.6m as the distance traveled along the ramp but I don't know what I am supposed to do with that.
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