A basketball is rolling without slipping across the floor. Beside it and parallel to it, a block of ice of the same mass as the basketball slides (assume that there is no friction between the ice and the floor) at the same speed. The two objects encounter a ramp sloping upwards. Which object will go further up the ramp, or will the two objects reach the same height?

I think that these two objects should reach the same height from the kinematic equation involving both acceleration and distance. As both objects are going up the inclined plane, it is being slowed down by the force of gravity

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A basketball is rolling without slipping across the floor. Beside it and parallel to it, a block of ice of the same mass as the basketball slides (assume that there is no friction between the ice and the floor) at the same speed. The two objects encounter a ramp sloping upwards. Which object will go further up the ramp, or will the two objects reach the same height? 

I think that these two objects should reach the same height from the kinematic equation involving both acceleration and distance. As both objects are going up the inclined plane, it is being slowed down by the force of gravity

anonymous · Answer

Therefore, both objects have a same value of acceleration, mass, and initial velocity,..