You are watching one of the Red Bull extreme sport competitions on tv, where a s

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You are watching one of the Red Bull extreme sport competitions on tv, where a stunt person planes to ride their motorcycle up a 2.0 m high. 20degree ramp, sail across a 10 m wide pooI filled with hungry crocodiles, and land at ground level on the other side. During the presiunt interview, the stunt person brags about all of the practice runs where things went super well. Unfortunately during the televised stunt, the motorcycle engine dies just as they start up the ramp. The motorcycle is going 10.4 m/s at that instant, and the rolling friction of the rubber tires (coefficient 0.02) is not negligible. Does the stunt person survive, or are they crocodile food? Justify your answer by calculating the distance they travel through the air after leaving the end of the ramp.

Explanation / Answer

Using Work-Energy Theorem:

1/2 m*10.42 =  0.02*mgcos200*10 +mg*2 +mg*x [let 'x' is the distance travelled in air by stunt man]

54.08 = 1.84+19.6+9.8x

x = 3.3306 m

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