Problem: A car is parked at the top of a 52m -high hill. It slips out of gear and rolls down the hill.How fast will it be going at the bottom? (Ignore friction.)

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Law of conservation of energy:

$P E_{0} + K . E_{0} = P E_{f} + K . E_{f}$

$\begin{array}{rcl} \begin{array}{rc} m g h_{0} & + \frac{1}{2} m {v_{0}}^{2} \end{array} & = & \begin{array}{rc} m g h_{f} & + \frac{1}{2} m {v_{f}}^{2} \end{array} \end{array}$

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How fast will it be going at the bottom? (Ignore friction.)

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Problem: A car is parked at the top of a 52m -high hill. It slips out of gear and rolls down the hill.How fast will it be going at the bottom? (Ignore friction.)

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