A tow rope is used to pull skiers with constant speed up a snowy hill. The rope is parallel to the hill, and the hill makes an angle of 0 = 24° with the horizontal. The coeffi- cient of friction between a typical pair of skis and the snow is με 0.05. If the maximum tension the rope can provide without breaking is T = 1,500 N, then what is the largest mass m a skier can have without breaking the rope? (You may assume that only one skier at a time rides up the hill.) =

A tow rope is used to pull skiers with constant speed up a snowy hill. The rope is parallel to the hill, and the hill makes an angle of 0 = 24° with the horizontal. The coeffi- cient of friction between a typical pair of skis and the snow is με 0.05. If the maximum tension the rope can provide without breaking is T = 1,500 N, then what is the largest mass m a skier can have without breaking the rope? (You may assume that only one skier at a time rides up the hill.) =