Tuesday, January 15, 2013

A lift has a power rating of 480 W. How high can it raise two 50-kg sacks of rice in 2.0 seconds?

By the definition, power is work performed at a time unit (work divided by time). Therefore in this problem the total work done is where is the given power and is the given time.


Also it is known that the amount of work performed on a body adds to its total energy. The total energy of the sacks consists of the kinetic energy and the potential energy So because the initial speed is probably zero. Here is the height in question and is the end speed.


To maximize we need to minimize and its minimum is zero. In this case and


Two sacks have total mass of Thus the numerical answer is about

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