Homework Help: physics

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 3:03am.

Determine the work a hiker must do on a 15.8 kg backpack to carry it up a hill of height h = 13.5 m. The hill is not an even slope but rather an irregular curve as in the figure.Determine also the work done by gravity on the backpack

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