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Pursued by ferocious wolves, you are in a sleigh with no horses, gliding without friction across an ice-covered lake. You take an action described by the equations
(a) Complete the statement of the problem, giving the data and identifying the unknowns. (b) Find the values of v1f and v2f (c) Find the amount of energy that has been transformed from potential energy stored in your body to kinetic energy of the system.
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