1 Dilip and Anna are doing an experiment to find the power at which they each work when running up a staircase at school. The top of the staircase is a vertical distance of 16 m above the bottom of the staircase.
Dilip, who has mass 75 kg , does the experiment first. Anna times him, and finds that he takes 5.6 seconds to run up the staircase.
- Find the average power generated by Dilip as he runs up the staircase.
Anna, who has mass \(M \mathrm {~kg}\), then does the same experiment and runs up the staircase in 5.0 seconds. She works out that the average power she has generated is less than the corresponding value for Dilip.
- Find an inequality satisfied by \(M\).
Gareth, who also has mass 75 kg , says that members of his sports club do an exercise similar to this, but they run up a 16 m high sand dune. Gareth can run up the sand dune in 8.4 seconds, but he claims that he generates more power than Dilip.
- Give a reason why Gareth's claim could be true.