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A 59-kg person on skis is going down a hill sloped at 30° from the horizontal. The coefficient of friction between the skis and the snow is 0.10. What would be the magnitude of the acceleration?
bobpursley
net force= mass*acceleration
mg*sinTheta-mg*mu*cosTheta=mass*a
solvefor a. Notice mass divides out.
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