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Homework Statement
Starting from rest, a cyclist coasts down the starting ramp at a professional biking track. If the ramp has the minimum legal dimensions(1.5 m high and 12m lomg) find
a) the acceleration of the cyclist ignoring friction
b) the acceleration of the cyclist if all sources of friction yield an effective coefficient of friction = .11
c)time taken to reach the bottom of the ramp, if friction acts as in (b)
Homework Equations
My concern is the part a.
V1= 0
v2= ?
a=?
m=?
d=12m
I can't use Newton's 2nd law to find the a because the mass is not given nor the force.
I looked at all kinematic equation and none of them works as well...so how do i approach solving this problem?