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ISBN: 9780137319497

Author: Knight

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 10, Problem 54EAP

The spring shown in FIGURE 10.54 is compressed 50 cm and used to launch a 100 kg physics student. The track is frictionless until it starts up the incline. The student’s coefficient of kinetic friction on the 300 incline is 0.15.
What is the student’s speed just after losing contact with the spring?
How far up the incline does the student go?

Chapter 10, Problem 54EAP, The spring shown in FIGURE 10.54 is compressed 50 cm and used to launch a 100 kg physics student. FIGURE P10.54

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