...track that is 1.5 m long...? A student flings a 23 g ball of putty at a 225 g cart sitting on a slanted air track that is 1.5 m long. The track is slanted at an angle of 25° with the horizontal. If the putty is travelling at 4.2 m/s when it hits the cart, will the cart reach the end of the track before it stops and slides back down?
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Arrive at this answer: 0.018 m , which indicates that it will not reach the end of the track.