A 40 kg dog is sitting on top of a hillside and has a potential energy of 1,568 J. What is the height of the hillside? (Formula:
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The two forces acting on your body are the weight and the normal force
Explanation:
As you sit on your chair in front of the computer, there are 2 forces acting on you:
- The force of gravity, of magnitude
(where m is your mass and
is the acceleration of gravity), acting downward
- The normal reaction exerted by the chair on your body, N, acting upward, and balancing your weight
We can apply Newton's second law to this situation; the law states that the net force acting on an object is equal to the product between the mass of the object and its acceleration:
where
is the net force
m is the mass
a is the acceleration
For your body sitting on the chair,
we also know that your body is at rest, so the acceleration is zero:
This means that the net force is zero, and therefore:
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