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Using a simply pulley/rope system, a crewman on an Arctic expedition is trying to lower a 6.69-kg crate to the bottom of a steep ravine of height 28.8 meters. The 45.0-kg crewman is walking along holding the rope, being careful to lower the crate at a constant speed of 1.50 m/s. Unfortunately, when the crate reaches a point 16.0 meters above the ground, the crewman steps on a slick patch of ice and slips. The crate immediately accelerates toward the ground, dragging the hapless crewman across the ice and toward the edge of the cliff. If we assume the ice is perfectly slick (that is, no frictio

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