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In our question we are told that us with a mass of 75 kg have just come down a ski slope and are travelling at the speed of 18 meters per second.
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Now we continue to slide on the flat terrain being slowed by frictional forces.
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It takes about 7 .3 seconds for us to come to a stop.
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We need to draw a scale force diagram of a system.
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Then we need to calculate the value of the acceleration.
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Also we need to determine using variables how the acceleration is connected to the coefficient of kinetic friction and then we need to calculate the coefficient along with the distance that we covered while sliding before coming to a stop.
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Now our free body diagram of the system will result in the following form where n is the normal reaction.
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F of k is the kinetic friction and mg is the gravitational force that is acting on us in downward direction.
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Now here, let a represent the acceleration and mu k represent the coefficient of friction.
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Thus we have normal reaction force to be equal to mg and the frictional force which will be equal to mu kn, thus being m gmg...