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Homework Statement
A beaver is building a damn and fills a 5kg bucket with 25kg of water. Then he begins to climb a vertical ladder, but unfortunately there is a whole in the bucket where water leaks out at a constant rate. At the top of the ladder, only 10kg of water is left in the bucket. Find the work done by the beaver in this problem.
Hint: Speed up the ladder is constant and writing an expression for mass of the bucket plus water as a function of height will help.
Homework Equations
(I believe):
PE=mgh
KE=(1/2)mv^2
Integrals
The Attempt at a Solution
Well, I want to start with writing the expression and then integrating that, but I don't know what the expression should be... h=Mb+Mw seems too easy, or is this what they meant at first and then to do something with the PE equation and height?? Ack!