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Posted by Em on Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 2:25pm.

A 64.5-kg skier moving horizontally at 4.83 m/s encounters a 16.7° incline.

a) How far up the incline will the skier move before she momentarily stops, ignoring friction?

b) How far up the incline will the skier move if the coefficient of kinetic friction between the skies and snow is 0.103?

Physics - Shuhei, Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 3:34pm
a) v^2/(2g) = h. h/sin(theta) = d
b) v^2/(2*g*mu) = h. h/(mu*sin(theta)) = d

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