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How Much Total Mechanical Energy Does the Truck Have?

  1. Shannon
    November 27th, 2009 at 23:30 | #1

    Don’t have a calculator on me but it has:
    Kinetic – 0.5 * 2000 * (5^2) [0.5*m*(v^2)]
    Potential – 2000 * 9.81 * 10 [m*g*h]
    Edit: – 3rd answere is right, calculator error on my part total energy is 221 kJ
    However, it is not ME the truck has, it is doing 221 KJ of work to climb that hill.
    Conservation of energy princicple….!

  2. Omstarts
    November 27th, 2009 at 23:35 | #2

    There are two types of energy the question may be asking about: kinetic energy (T) and gravitational potential energy (U). These may be calculated by the following formulae:
    T = 1/2 * m * v^2
    where m is the mass of the truck in kilograms (2000) and v is the velocity of the truck in meters per second (5), and
    U = m * g * h
    where m is the mass of the truck in kilograms (still 2000), g is the acceleration of gravity in meters per second squared (approximately 9.81), and h is the height above the reference level in meters (presumably 10).
    Judging by the wording of the question, they are asking for the sum of these two.

  3. peri_ren
    November 27th, 2009 at 23:37 | #3

    Total energy= 1/2(m)v^2 + wh =1000(25) + 2000(9.8)(10)=25000+
    196000=221′ 000 jouls

  4. nozar nazari
    November 28th, 2009 at 00:07 | #4

    using E=mgh we can find mechanical energy
    and it is 100000.

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