Objects x and y are connected by a string of negligible mass and suspended vertically over a pulley of negligible mass, creating an atwood’s machine, as shown in the figure. The objects are initially at rest, and the mass of object y is greater than the mass of object x. As object y falls, how does the gravitational potential energy of the object x-object y-earth system change? all frictional forces are considered to be negligible.

prolly a beacuse the momentuem the car has increases while going down hill

im sorry i dont know

i had this question and the answer was 3.15 miles.

martina travels from school to her mom's office. from there, she walks to school. after school, she walks to the library and then to a friends house before finally ending back at home. find martina's total distance traveled.

a) 0 miles  

b) 0.4 miles  

c) 1 mile  

d) 3.15 miles

initial speed when it is dropped is 150 ft/s

now at the same moment the acceleration due to gravity is perpendicular to its velocity

so as we know that

now we have centripetal acceleration a = 32 ft/s^2 as its perpendicular to velocity

while tangential acceleration at the same moment will be zero

so

now radius of curvature is given as

so the radius of curvature just after it is dropped is 703.125 ft