solution: part a.

We need to find pretty much everything there is to know about this system. starting from the top, we need to find the acceleration. We are given the initial and final velocities as well as the time, so we can use that along with one of the basic equations of motion to find:

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The only net force is tex2html_wrap_inline91 (kinetic friction). We can utilize this and Newton's second law which we set equal to each other. Then we plug in the value we got for a above to get the unknowns we need and solve for tex2html_wrap_inline81 . tex2html_wrap_inline95 is the normal force and in this case with a horizontal plane is just equal to the mass of the book times g.

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New we just need to find d, and since we already know a:

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