Kinematics in One Dimension

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Homework Statement



A car traveling at 25.43 m/s runs out of gas while traveling up a 17° slope. How far up the hill will it coast before starting to roll back down?

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Draw a free body diagram of the car and solve for the downward acceleration of gravity. Then just use kinematics to solve for when the velocity is 0.
 

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