You push a shopping cart with a force of 12 N for a distance of 1.5 m. You stop pushing the cart, but it continues to roll for 1.1 m. How much work did you do?

your answer is .4 work which is alot of work

Answered by armanicarden1 | 2024-06-10

You did 18 Joules of work on the shopping cart by pushing it with a force of 12 N over a distance of 1.5 m. The additional distance the cart rolled after you stopped pushing does not change the amount of work you performed.

The amount of work done on an object is calculated by the formula Work = Force imes Distance, where the force and displacement are in the same direction. The question asks how much work you did by pushing a shopping cart with a force of 12 N for a distance of 1.5 m. Since work is force times distance, we calculate the work as follows: Work = Force imes Distance = 12 N imes 1.5 m = 18 Joules. Once you stop pushing the cart and it continues to roll, no additional work is being done by you. Therefore, the total work that you did on the shopping cart is 18 Joules.

Answered by cdplsme2 | 2024-06-25

The work done while pushing the shopping cart is calculated using the formula for work. In this case, the work done is 18 joules, as you applied a force of 12 N over a distance of 1.5 m. The rolling distance after you stop pushing does not affect the work done by you.
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Answered by armanicarden1 | 2025-02-09