
Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 11CQ
A boy pushes his friend across a skating rink. Because the frictional forces are very small, the force exerted by the boy on his friend’s back is the only significant force acting on the friend in the horizontal direction. Is the change in kinetic energy of the friend greater than, equal to, or less than the work done by the force exerted by the boy? Explain.
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