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i'm trying to figure out how much effort it takes for a man to pull a pallet of cokes (2000lbs) from one point in a grocery store to another (50ft). if the pallet is moved by a jack with polyurethane wheels across smooth concrete, or tile floors like in wal-mart, the friction coefficient would...

let's say a 180 lbs person needs to move a 2000 lbs object 50 feet. that would take 100,000 ft/lbs. how do you apply that in terms of how much effort it would take from a 180lbs man? divide by 180 and get 555.5? how do you determine the amount of force required to get this object rolling? this...

just pointing me in a general direction would be great...

anyone? anyone?

any comments at all would be appreciated.

this is my first post here, so hopefully this is the correct forum. any help is appreciated... i'm a business major, and I'm working on a project that involves saving a particular company money. i work for coca-cola, and i figured that i could use the fact that people i work with have...