Question: A student stands in an elevator that is continuously accelerating upward with acceleration a. Her backpack is sitting on the floor next to the wall.

A student stands in an elevator that is continuously accelerating upward with acceleration a. Her backpack is sitting on the floor next to the wall. The width of the elevator car is L. The student gives her backpack a quick kick at t = 0, imparting to it speed v, and making it slide across the elevator floor. At time t, the backpack hits the opposite wall. Find the coefficient of kinetic friction μk between the backpack and the elevator floor.

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