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[urgent] simple mechanical energy question [gr.11]
Several children, pretending they are playing in the jungle, suspend a rope from an overhead tree limb. A child of mass 40 kg running at 8.0m/s grabs the rope and swings off the level ground.
a) What maximum height does the child reach?
b) How fast would a 30 kg child have to run to reach the same height as the 40 kg child?
½mv1²+mgh1 = ½mv2²+mgh2
a) m=40kg, v1=8.0m/s, h1=0m, g=9.8m/s², v2=0m/s (at max height v=0)
h2=?
½mv1²+mgh1 = ½mv2²+mgh2
½mv1²= mgh2
h2 = 3.27m = 3m (is this correct?)
im really confused with B... coz i got 8m/s... it doesn't make sense to me how they can run at the same speed and achieve the same height??!
this is really urgent... so please help me! >_< thanks!
Several children, pretending they are playing in the jungle, suspend a rope from an overhead tree limb. A child of mass 40 kg running at 8.0m/s grabs the rope and swings off the level ground.
a) What maximum height does the child reach?
b) How fast would a 30 kg child have to run to reach the same height as the 40 kg child?
½mv1²+mgh1 = ½mv2²+mgh2
a) m=40kg, v1=8.0m/s, h1=0m, g=9.8m/s², v2=0m/s (at max height v=0)
h2=?
½mv1²+mgh1 = ½mv2²+mgh2
½mv1²= mgh2
h2 = 3.27m = 3m (is this correct?)
im really confused with B... coz i got 8m/s... it doesn't make sense to me how they can run at the same speed and achieve the same height??!
this is really urgent... so please help me! >_< thanks!
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