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Question 24

Two electric go-karts are tested on a track. In each run, a go-kart accelerates from rest. The useful output is the energy transferred to the kinetic energy store of the go-kart. Only the energy transfers while the go-karts accelerate are considered: ignore any energy transfers while they slow down or between runs.

Go-kartUseful energy transferred in each runEfficiencyNumber of runs in one hour
A12 kJ0.8020
B9.0 kJ0.6016

Calculate, in its simplest form, the ratio of the total energy dissipated by go-kart A to the total energy dissipated by go-kart B during their accelerations in the hour.

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