You drop a 2.00 kg book to a friend who stands on the ground at distance D

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You drop a 2.00 kg book to a friend who stands on the ground at distance D = 10.0 m below. If your friend's outstretched hands are at distance d = 1.50m above the ground (Figure),

(a) How much work W, does the gravitational force do on the book as it drops to her hands?

(b) What is the change in the gravitational potential energy of the book-Earth system during the drop? If the gravitational potential energy U of that system is taken to be zero at ground level, what is

(c) When the book is released and

(d) When it reaches her hands? Now take U to be 100 J at ground level and again find

(e) Wg,

(f) AU,

(e) Wg at the release point, and

(h) U at her hands.

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Fundamentals of Physics

ISBN: 978-0471758013

8th Extended edition

Authors: Jearl Walker, Halliday Resnick

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