Question

You are walking up an icy slope. suddenly your feet slip, and you start to slide backward. will you slide at a constant speed, or will you accelerate?

Answer 1

You will accelerate down the slope.

Answer 2

Will accelerate with g.sinθ, where θ is the angle between the ground and the inclination of the slope.

Step-by-step explanation:

When any mass is sliding down the inclined plane will be affected by the acceleration due to gravity and some component of this acceleration will act on the body.

Let θ be the angle of inclination of the inclined slope from the horizontal.

then from the attached figure we can clearly get the component of acceleration along the slope.