Work done by a father pushing a sled up a hill

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A father pushes his daughter's sled up a snowy incline with a constant acceleration of 0.25 m/s², and the total mass of the sled and girl is 35 kg. The calculations involve determining the normal force, kinetic friction, and net force to find the work done. Initially, the father calculated the work incorrectly, arriving at 2508 J instead of the correct 2700 J. The error stemmed from not accounting for how the father's horizontal force affects the normal force. After correcting the approach, the father successfully found the right answer.
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A father pushes horizontally on his daughter's sled to move it up a snowy incline, as illustrated in Fg. 5.23b. If the sled goes up the hill with a constant acceleration of 0.25m/s2, how much work is done by the father in getting it from the bottom to the top of the hill? (The total mass of the sled and the girl is 35kg and the coefficient of kinetic friction between the sled runners and the snow is 0.25)

the slope must be 3.6/sin 15º.
the Normal Force is N=mg cos 15º = 331.31N
Therefore the kinetic friction is fk=uk = 82.83N

Now here's the part I think I'm doing wrong, because I get the wrong answer:
Fnet=ma = 8.75N
Fnet=F cos 15º - fk - mg sin 15º

solving for F, I get F=186.7N

to find the amount of work done by the father, I use F cos 15º (because it is the force in the same direction as the displacement).

W = F cos 15º * 3.6/sin 15º = 2508 J

However, the answer is 2700 J. What have I done wrong?
 

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endeavor said:
the Normal Force is N=mg cos 15º = 331.31N
Therefore the kinetic friction is fk=uk = 82.83N
Realize that the father's horizontal force affects the normal force; the normal force is not simply mg \cos \theta.
 
Doc Al said:
Realize that the father's horizontal force affects the normal force; the normal force is not simply mg \cos \theta.
thanks, i got the right answer now
 
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