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A roller coaster has a mass of 500 kg it drops from rest at the top of a hill that’s 57 m tall how fast is it going when it reaches the bott
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Answer Here, assuming no energy is dissipated by friction or air resistance, all the gravitational potential energy it has at the top of the hill is converted to kinetic energy at the bottom of the hill. Therefore, we have:
m
g
h
=
1
2
m
v
2
final
We want to solve for
v
, therefore
2
g
h
=
v
2
final
√
2
g
h
=
v
final
√
2
(
9.8
)
(
88
)
=
v
final
41.5
m
s
=
v
final
the answer is 33.4m/s….. i may be wrong but i’m sure that’s the answer.