An escalator in a shopping centre carries people up through a height h at a vertical speed of v, but you’re in a hurry when you step onto it, so you climb the moving steps (each with a height of hs) at a rate of n steps/s. Determine: the amount of chemical energy converted into mechanical energy by your leg muscles during your escalator ride, given that your mass is m; the work the escalator motor does on you; the total amount of work done by your legs and the escalator in getting you to the top
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And: the total amount of work done by your legs and the escalator in getting you to the top.
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