Now consider a block with the same mass M=2.31⁡kg as the cylinder which is sliding with the same initial velocity v0=1.8⁡ms as the cylinder along a frictionless table. The block encounters a frictionless ramp also of height h=0.160⁡m.

Comment on the translational speed of the rolling cylinder at the top of the ramp and that of the sliding block at the top of the ramp. Do your answers make sense to you?

Group of answer choices

a. The block is sliding slower because the potential energy it gained as it went up the ramp could only come from its translational kinetic energy. The cylinder has both rotational and translational kinetic energy.

b. The block is sliding faster because the potential energy it gained as it went up the ramp could only come from its translational kinetic energy. The cylinder has both rotational and translational kinetic energy.

c. The block is sliding slower because the potential energy it gained as it went up the ramp could only come from its translational kinetic energy. The cylinder has only translational kinetic energy - no rotational.

d. The block is sliding faster because the potential energy it lost as it went up the ramp could only come from its rotational kinetic energy. The cylinder has both rotational and translational kinetic energy.