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A small blimp is used for advertising purposes at a football game. It has a mass of and is attached by a towrope to a truck on the ground. The towrope makes an angle of downward from the horizontal, and the blimp hovers at a constant height of above the ground. The truck moves on a straight line for on the level surface of the stadium parking lot at a constant velocity of . If the drag coefficient in ) is , how much work is done by the truck in pulling the blimp (assuming there is no wind)?
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1 of 5Given the following data
our objective is to calculate the work done by the truck when pulling the blip.
We'll do so by applying the formula
Sketching this problem and analyzing the forces is recommended before doing any calculations.
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