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4. A 75.0-kg man is riding an escalator in a shopping mall. The escalator moves the man at a constant velocity from ground level to the floor above, a vertical height of 4.60 m. What is the work done on the man by (a) the gravitational force and (b) the escalator? |
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The FEscal
force is the force of the escalator acting on the person. It would include the normal force and the
force to accelerate the person up the incline of the escalator. We are looking for the work done raising
the person a vertical distance, so the horizontal or x component of the
escalator does no work in the vertical direction. So we break the
escalator force up into x and y components and then we only need consider the
work in the y direction. We also know
the escalator is moving at constant speed, so there is no acceleration in the
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Sum of the forces provides |
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