A Bridge Worker Needs to Pull a 14-Meter Uniform Cable

question 61

Short Answer

A bridge worker needs to pull a 14-meter uniform cable with mass 3 kg/meter up to the work platform.How many joules are needed, assuming that the cable is hanging straight down from the platform? Round to the nearest whole number.

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Definitions:

Adjusting Entries

Bookkeeping entries executed at the termination of an accounting period to apportion profits and costs to the era in which they effectively took place.

Net Income

The total profit or loss of a company after all expenses, taxes, and costs have been subtracted from total revenues.

Expenses Overstated

A situation where the recorded amount of expenses is higher than the actual amount incurred, causing an understatement of net income.

Adjusting Journal Entry

a bookkeeping entry made at the end of an accounting period to allocate income and expenditure to the period in which they actually occurred.