Tuesday, April 1, 2014

A roller coaster cart of mass m=351 kg starts stationary at point A, where h1= 29.2 m and a while later is at B, where h2= 10.1 m.The acceleration...

The vertical distance the roller coster cart of mass moved down  is given by :


h1-h2= 29.2m-10.1m = 19.1m


There is no friction. We assume that the cart is moving only due to the gratational acceleration.


Let the acceleration due to gravity 9m/s^2 and the velocity of the cart V, the relation between is as follows:


v^2 = 2g(h1-h2)=2*9.81*19.1


v=sqrt(2*9.81*19.1)=19.3583m/s is the downward speed

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