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June 2021 p41 q1
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A winch operates by means of a force applied by a rope. The winch is used to pull a load of mass 50 kg up a line of greatest slope of a plane inclined at 60° to the horizontal. The winch pulls the load a distance of 5 m up the plane at constant speed. There is a constant resistance to motion of 100 N.
Find the work done by the winch.
Solution
To find the work done by the winch, we first calculate the force exerted by the winch. The force required to pull the load up the plane includes overcoming both the gravitational component along the plane and the constant resistance.
The gravitational force component along the plane is given by: