Question: You are a member of an Alpine Rescue Team. You must project a box of supplies up an incline of constant slope angle a so

You are a member of an Alpine Rescue Team. You must project a box of supplies up an incline of constant slope angle a so that it reaches a stranded skier who is a vertical distance h above the bottom of the incline. The incline is slippery, but there is some Exercises 205 friction present, with kinetic friction coefficient use the work energy theorem to calculate the minimum speed you must give the box at the bottom of the incline so that it will reach the skier. Express your answer in terms of g, h, μk m and a.

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