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Homework Statement
A car traveling at 31.48 m/s runs out of gas while traveling up a 35° slope. How far up the hill will it coast before starting to roll back down?
Homework Equations
Ax=acos(35) Ay=asin(35)
deltaV/2a=distance
The Attempt at a Solution
I made the final velocity 0 seeing as it has to come to a complete stop before rolling back and i found the Ax and Ay which was 8.028 and 5.621. I thought if i then plugged in the corresponding accelerations (Ax and Ay) into delta x(or y)= Vf^2-Vi^2/2*Ax(or Ay) that would give me the distance in the x and y direction and from there i could use the equation delta x^2+delta y^2= c^2. and from there I would get the distance traveled up. Apparently thats wrong. What else should I try.