Early one October you go to a pumpkin patch to select yourHalloween pumpkin. You
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Early one October you go to a pumpkin patch to select yourHalloween pumpkin. You lift the 2.7-kgpumpkin to a height of 1.31 m, then carryit 50.4 m (on level ground) to thecheck-out stand. (a) Calculate the work you do on the pumpkin as you lift itfrom the ground. (b) How much work do you do on the pumpkin as you carry itfrom the field? I got 34.7 J as the answer to part A, but i cannot getthe correct answer to part B. Early one October you go to a pumpkin patch to select yourHalloween pumpkin. You lift the 2.7-kgpumpkin to a height of 1.31 m, then carryit 50.4 m (on level ground) to thecheck-out stand. (a) Calculate the work you do on the pumpkin as you lift itfrom the ground. (b) How much work do you do on the pumpkin as you carry itfrom the field? I got 34.7 J as the answer to part A, but i cannot getthe correct answer to part B.Explanation / Answer
work done in second case =0 (since displacement and force areperpendicular to each other) W=F*x*cos90 W=F*x*0 W=0