Before railroad were invented, goods often traveled along canals, with mules pulling barges from the bank. if a mule is exerting a 12,000n force for 10km, and the rope connecting the mule to the barge is at a 20 degree angle from the direction of travel, how much work did the mole do on the barge?
a. 12mj
b. 11mj
c. 4.1mj
d. 6mj

W = 112.76MJ

Explanation:

the work is:

where is the force executed in the direction of the displacement and the d the displacement.

so:

W = 12000Ncos(20)(10000)

we use the cos of the angule because it give us the proyection in the axis x of the force, that means the force in the direction of the displacement.

W = 112.76MJ

answer: a. same unit

explanation:

the total distance that martina travels that day is

(distance from home to mom's office) plus (distance from mom's office to school)

plus (distance from school to library) plus (distance from library to friend's house)

plus (distance from friend's house to martina's house).

(we don't know what any of these distance actually is.)