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A person riding a train at a constant speed of 30 m/s drops a 2-kg backpack from a heigh...

A person riding a train at a constant speed of 30 m/s drops a 2-kg backpack from a height of 1.25 m. The fall requires half a second and the backpack acquires a vertical velocity of 5 m/s. Find the initial kinetic energy, the final kinetic energy, and the change in kinetic energy from the reference system of an observer on the train.

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