In this activity, you’ll read two articles about plastics that analyze the material from two different points of view. You’ll al
so check the credibility of the organization that published the articles. The two articles are published by the Society for Science and the Public (SSP). Read about SSP’s mission and history. Do you think SSP is an organization that can be trusted to write truthful articles? Explain your reasoning.
Applying the work-energy theorem, if we can neglect the friction between truck and road, the total change in kinetic energy must be equal to the work done by the external forces.
This work, is just 4,475 J.
So we can write the following equation:
where m= mass of the truck = 2.5*10³ kg.
So, we can find the speed v, as follows:
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The work done by the man, is just the horizontal force applied, times the displacement produced by the force horizontally: