If you were to climb a set of stairs that is 11.8 meters high (in the vertical direction) with a 32.1kg backpack, how much total work would you do (including your body weight and the backpack)? Assume you have a mass of 70kg. Please calculate to 2 decimal places. Be sure to select the correct units.
Work done in carrying a mass against gravity is given by, , where, is the work done, is the mass of object, is the vertical height acheived and is the acceleration due to gravity.
Given, = 70 kg + 32.1 kg = 102.1 kg
= 11.8 m
Known, = 9.81 m/s2
Work done,
Thus, the total work that would be done is 11818.89 Joules
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