Answer: 6250 joules
Explanation:
The work needed to lift an object of mass M by a height H is equal to:
w = M*g*H
where h = 10m/s^2
then the total work that he did is equal to the sum of the work for every stone:
W = (100kg*g*H) + (120kg*g*H) + (140kg*g*H) + (160kg*g*H) + (180kg*g*H)
= (100kg + 120kg + 140kg + 160kg + 180kg)*g*H
= (500kg)*g*H
and now we can repalce g by 10m/s^2 and H by 125cm
But you can notice that we have two different units of distance, so knowing that 100cm = 1m
we can write H = 125cm = (125/100) m = 1.25 m
Then we have:
H = 500kg*10m/s^2*1.25m = 6250 J
The answer is C 300,000 kilometers per second
This leads to a paradox known as the Gibbs paradox, after Josiah Willard Gibbs. The paradox allows for the entropy of closed systems to decrease, violating the second law of thermodynamics. A related paradox is the "mixing paradox".
