A 9.0-kg box of oranges slides from rest down a frictionless incline from a height of 5.0 m. A constant frictional force, caused by friction with the surface from point A to point B, brings the block to rest at point B, 19 m from point A. What is the coefficient of kinetic friction between A and B?
The gravitational potential energy at the point the box begins must be equal to the kinetic energy at position A and this energy must have been "used up" by friction by the time the box gets to B. So letâs compare the energy at the starting position to that at B (which is zero). There is no reason to include point A.