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Posted by analicia on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 11:18pm.

you push a 75 kg wooden box at a constant speed. the coeffiecent of kinetic friction between the box and the desk is 0.230. You pull the crate a distance of 8.75 m. How much work was done?
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Science - drwls, Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 11:23pm
Multiply the friction force by the distance pulled. That will give you the work done, in Joules.

The friction force is M*g*0.23 = 169.1 Newtons

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