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A child on a sled starts from rest at the top of a 20.0° slope.
1)
Assuming that there are no forces resisting the sled’s motion, how long will the child take to reach the bottom of the slope, 250 m from the top? (Express your answer to two significant figures.)
Answer:-
The child take 12.2 seconds to reach the bottom of the slope.
Explanation:-
Given:
From the free body diagram, the force on the sled along the slope is given by,
Where, F is,
Therefore,
Where,
Now, from kinematic equation we have,
Where, u is the initial velocity of the sled. Since the sled starts from the rest, the initial velocity will be zero, i.e.
By plugging the value from equation (1) in above expression,
This is the time required for child to reach the bottom of the slope.