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In this video, i'm going to be looking at the conservation of mechanical energy.
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What we're looking at is a box sliding down a ramp and then sliding along a horizontal surface.
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Okay, so we have a box initially at the top of a ramp.
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Okay, it's going to start from rest.
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We're going to release it.
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It's going to slide down the ramp.
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Okay, and move on to this horizontal surface where it's going to continue moving for some distance.
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So we start from rest up here, we slide down and then continue on.
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And i'm going to call this distance that the block slides down the ramp.
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It'll be a distance l.
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Okay, and the distance it slides once it reaches the horizontal surface, that's going to be distance d.
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This ramp is inclined with respect to the horizontal at some angle theta.
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We have coefficients of kinetic friction between the ramp and the block.
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I'll call that u sub r and between the ramp and the horizontal, not the block and the horizontal surface.
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I'll call that u sub h.
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We're going to be asking a couple of questions about this block's energy at various points in its travels.
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Right, so let's get some values so we can start solving this.
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I have the mass of the block equals 10 .0 kilograms.
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Okay, i have that length of the ramp, l equals 16 .0.
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Meters.
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And my angle of inclination, theta, equals 30 degrees.
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I have the coefficient of kinetic friction on the ramp, mu -subr, equals 0 .3.
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And on that horizontal surface, it is 0 .4.
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We have the acceleration due to gravity g equals 9 .80 meters per second squared.
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Okay, so let's start looking at our questions...