A 95 kg student slides down a waterslide that is 13 m high. How fast is he going at the bottom?
1 Answer
Apr 19, 2018
The speed is
Explanation:
The initial energy is just the potential one:
At the bottom, there’s only kinetic energy:
If there are no dissipative forces, then the energy is conserved. Therefore:
You don’t even need the mass of the student. :-)