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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 12, 2011 at 12:41am.

A sprinter mass 72 kg runs the 50 meter dash in 8.35 s. Assume that the sprinter accelerates in the first second and runs the rest of the race at a constant velocity.
(a) Calculate the average power produced for that first second.
1 W
(b) What is the maximum power the sprinter now generates?
2 W

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