You are walking up an icy slope. suddenly your feet slip, and you start to slide backward. will you slide at a constant speed, or will you accelerate?
Answer:
Will accelerate with g.sinθ, where θ is the angle between the ground and the inclination of the slope.
Explanation:
When any mass is sliding down the inclined plane will be affected by the acceleration due to gravity and some component of this acceleration will act on the body.
Let θ be the angle of inclination of the inclined slope from the horizontal.
then from the attached figure we can clearly get the component of acceleration along the slope.