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SECTION A Answer ALL questions. For questions 1-10, in Section A, select one answer from A to D and put a cross in the box 12SI. If you change your mind, put a line through the box ~ and then mark your new answer with a cross 12SI. 1 Which of the following is a scalar quantity?
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A student, mass 80 kg, stands on a horizontal set of bathroom scales, of negligible mass, attached to a massless platform that slides down a 30° incline, Figure I. The . scales read 75 kg. Calculate: (i) (ii) (iii) the vertical acceleration a; of the student the acceleration of the student down the slope as the coefficient of dynamic friction J.1 between the platform and the slope, where J.1 is the ratio of the frictional force to the normal reaction.

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