![]() ![]() View friction as something that eats up mechanical Hill, all of this gets converted to, or maybe I should pose that as a question. Sorry, I have to readjust my chair- at the bottom of the So what happens? At the bottom of the hill. Thing- times 9.8 times 43.6 is equal to, let's Have to figure out trig functions anymore. I can use just my regular calculator since I don't So going back to the potentialĮnergy, we have the mass times the acceleration of gravity Out, what do I get? I'm using the calculator But you could do thisĪnd the sine of 5 degrees is 0.087. That's cause I didn't have myĬalculator with me today. And I calculated the sine ofĥ degrees ahead of time. So let me do a little work here- we know that sine ofĥ degrees is equal to the height over 500. So the sine of this angle isĮqual to opposite over hypotenuse. Of this triangle, if you consider this whole And then what's the height? Well here we're going to have Mass is 90, the acceleration of gravity is 9.8 meters Height, right? Well that's equal to, if the To mass times the acceleration of gravity times Potential, and what is the potential energy? Well potential energy is equal So let's figure out what theĮnergy of the system is when the rider starts off. The speed of the biker at the bottom of the hill. So the force of friction isĮqual to 60 newtons And of course, this is going to be Is the drag of friction? Or how much is actually frictionĪcting against this rider's motion? We could think a little bitĪbout where that friction is coming from. The coefficient of friction and then we have to figure Assuming an average frictionįorce of 60 newtons. It like a wedge, like we've done in other problems. A 500 meter long hill withĪ 5 degree incline. The hypotenuse here is 500 hundred meters long. Start at rest from the top of a 500 meter So the bike and rider combinedĪre 90 kilograms. And we can think aboutįrom the University of Oregon's. That some of that energy gets lost to friction. But that's because all of theįorces that were acting in these systems were conservativeĪ problem that has a little bit of friction, and we'll see So far, everything we've been doing,Įnergy was conserved by the law of conservation. I'll now do another conservationĪdd another twist.
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