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A student gets in an elevator and sets her backpack of mass m on the floor. The elevator accelerates upward with an acceleration a. (a) What is the normal force on her backpack? (b) Now, she gives the backpack a kick, so that it has a speed v. It comes to rest a distance L from where it started. Find the coefficient of kinetic friction between the backpack and the floor.

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Answer:
\frac { 2(vt-L) }{ { (a+g)t }^( 2 ) }

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