stangeroo
Apr10-05, 11:18 PM
Jill has just gotten out of her car in the grocery store parking lot. The parking lot is on a hill and is tilted 3 degrees. Fifty meters downhill from Jill, a little old lady lets go of a fully loaded shopping cart. The cart, with frictionless wheels, starts to roll straight downhill. Jill immediately starts to sprint after the cart with her top acceleration of 2 m/s^2
How far has the cart rolled before jill catches it?
I know you need to set two formulas equal to each other, but I dont know which formulas :cry:
EDIT: I started off by drawing it out and taking the sin of 3 degrees, .0523 and multiplying it by 9.8 to get the acceleration of the cart, I dont know where to go from there
How far has the cart rolled before jill catches it?
I know you need to set two formulas equal to each other, but I dont know which formulas :cry:
EDIT: I started off by drawing it out and taking the sin of 3 degrees, .0523 and multiplying it by 9.8 to get the acceleration of the cart, I dont know where to go from there