36. A 35-kg girl is bouncing on a trampoline. During a certain interval after she leaves the surface of the trampoline, her kinetic energy decreases to 210 J from 440 J. How high does she rise during this interval? Neglect air resistance.

 

If we neglect air resistance, we have no non-conservative forces.  So mechanical energy is conserved.

Consider the original height to be zero of gravitational potential energy and we have

 

 

 

 

 

 

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