A shopper does 157 J of work pushing a shopping cart with a 10.9 N force directed along the handle at a -35.0°. How did he push the cart?
Assuming that the question reads "How FAR did he push the cart"
Work done is displacement multiplied by that component of force which is in the same direction as the displacement.
Here the angle between force and displacement is . The component of force in the direction of displacement will be
Let the displacement of the cart be .
Then,
Here,
He pushed the cart a distance of 17.6 meters.
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