Acart for hauling ore out of a gold mine has a mass of 435 kg, including its load. the cart runs along a straight stretch of track that is sloped 4.77â° from the horizontal. a donkey, trudging along and to the side of the track, has the unenviable job of pulling the cart up the slope with a 438-n force for a distance of 193 m by means of a rope that is parallel to the ground and makes an angle of 13.3â° with the track. the coefficient of friction for the cart\'s wheels on the track is 0.0167. use g = 9.81 m/s2. find the work that the donkey performs on the cart during this process.

Learning goal: to understand newton's 1st law. newton's principia states this first law of motion: an object subject to no net force maintains its state of motion, either at rest or at constant speed in a right line. this law may be restated as follows: if the sum of all forces acting on an object is zero, then the acceleration of that object is zero. mathematically this is just a special case of the 2nd law of motion, f⃗ =ma⃗ , when f⃗ =0. when studying newtonian mechanics, it is best to remember the 1st law in two ways: if the net force (i.e., sum of all forces) acting on an object is zero, the object will keep moving with constant velocity (which may be zero). if an object is moving with constant velocity, that is, with zero acceleration, then the net force acting on that object must be zero. complete the following sentences to see if you can apply these ideas. part a if a car is moving to the left with constant velocity, one can conclude that