Question: Use the work-energy' theorem to solve each of these problems. You can use Newton's laws to check your answers. Neglect air resistance in sell cases.

Use the work-energy' theorem to solve each of these problems. You can use Newton's laws to check your answers. Neglect air resistance in sell cases. (a) A branch falls from the top of a 95.0.m-tall redwood tree, starting from rest How fast is it moving when it reaches the ground? (b) A volcano ejects a boulder directly upward 525 m into the air. How fast was the boulder moving just as it left the volcano? (c) A skier moving at 5.00 m/s encounters a long, rough horizontal patch of snow having coefficient of kinetic friction 0.220 with her skis. How far does she travel on this patch before stopping? (d) Suppose the rough patch in part (c) was only 290 m long? How fast would the skier be moving when she reached the end of the patch? (e) At the base of a frictionless icy hill that rises at 25.0° above the horizontal, a toboggan has a speed of 12.0 m/s toward the hill. How high vertically above the base will it go before stopping?

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