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Homework Statement
A father pushes horizontally on his daughter’s sled to move it up a snowy incline. If the sled moves up the hill with a constant velocity, how much work is done by the father in moving it from the bottom to the top of the hill? The angle is 15 degrees, the top of hill is 3.6 meters high, the mass of girl and sled is 35 kg, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.20.
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The Attempt at a Solution
I know that you have to sum the x and y components, and I know the y component is W=mgh=(35kg)(9.8 m/s^2)(3.6 m), and I know the final answer is 2300 J but I don't know how to get there.