a 30 kg cart is travelling in a zero friction environment at a constant velocity of 5m/s. It's about to go up a very steep hill. How high will the cart be when the velocity changes to zero? PLEASE HELP

1.27551m

Explanation:

This is a simple energy convertion problem. Since there is no friction, and assuming no air drag and other external factors, mechanical energy should be conserved in this system.

Thus, we get:

We also know that the gravitational potential energy is equal to mgh, while the KE can be calculated using

One thing to note here, is that the final KE will be 0, as there is no velocity at the end. Furthermore, we also can set the initial PE as 0 as we are looking at relative height, and at the start it is at h=0.

Plugging in:

Solving for h, we get 1.27551m

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