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Help on a physics problem for kinetic energy given weight and distance.?

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A 55 kg woman stands on the back of a 6.0 m long, 110 kg raft that is floating at rest in still water with no friction. The raft is 0.50 m from a fixed pier.

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(a) The woman walks to the front of the raft and stops. How far is the raft from the pier now?

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(b) While the woman walks, she maintains a constant speed of 3.0 m/s relative to the raft. Find the total kinetic energy of the system (woman plus raft)

_____J

Find the total kinetic energy of the system if the woman walked at 3.0 m/s on a raft tied to the pier. (Make a mental comparison of these two values.)

_____J

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