An engineering student examining the scene of an accident, observe skid marks 30.0 m long by a 1600 kg car. The car skidded to a stop on a concrete highway having a coefficient of kinetic with the tires of 0.75. Estimate the cars speed at the beginning of the skid.

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Q: A student repeats your lab but uses a penny and a book (instead of a washer and wooden ramp). Their…

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Q: car weighs 1100kg and can accelerate from 0 to 60m/h in 7.1 seconds on a flat ground

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Q: A 12 kg block rests on a 24 degree inclined frictionless surface and is attached by a light string…

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Q: A man is driving his car with speed 52.0 mi/h on a horizontal stretch of road.   (A) When the road…

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Q: Traveling at a speed of 14.2 m/s, the driver of an automobile suddenly locks the wheels by slamming…

A: Given that: u=14.2 m/sv=?μ=0.59t=1.14 secg=9.8 m/s2

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Q: A car is traveling at 48.0 km/h on a flat highway. If the coefficient of friction between road and…

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Q: A car is traveling at 40.0 km/h on a flat highway. (a) If the coefficient of friction between road…

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Q: A frictionless plane is 10.0 m long and inclined at 35.0°.A sled starts at the bottom with an…

A: The formula for the distance travelled by the sled is,

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Q: A basketball player jumps straight up for a ball. To do this, he lowers his body 0.300 m and then…

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Q: A car is traveling at 46.0 mi/h on a horizontal highway. (a) If the coefficient of static friction…

A: Given Data: Initial speed of the car (u) = 47 mi/h = 21.0 m/s. Final speed of the car (v) = 0 m/s.…

Q: A student repeats your lab but uses a penny and a book (instead of a washer and wooden ramp). Their…

A: Kinetic friction opposes the relative motion between the two surfaces. It is given by f=μkNWhere μk…

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Q: A 30 kg sled slides down a 30 degree hill. If the coefficient of friction between the sled and the…

A: The free-body diagram of the sled on the inclined hill is shown below. Here, a is the acceleration,…

Q: A frictionless plane is 10.0 m long and Inclined at 28.0°. A sled starts at the bottom with an…

A: The acceleration of the sled is, a=mgsinθm=gsinθ=9.8 m/s2sin28°=4.60 m/s2 (a) The time taken by the…

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Q: A car is traveling at 50.0 km/h on a flat highway. (a) If the coefficient of friction between road…

A: By using Newton’s second law in the horizontal direction We can write, For distance

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A: Given m=1500 Kg (mass of car) u=75 mph (initial velocity) Since 1mph=0.447 m/s u=75×0.447=33.525 m/s…

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Q: A box with a mass of 8.80 kg slides up a ramp inclined at an angle of 26.5° with the horizontal. The…

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Q: A car is moving with a speed of 20 m/s when the brakes are applied. The wheels lock (stop spinning).…

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Q: A frictionless plane is 10.0 m long and inclined at 32.0°. A sled starts at the bottom with an…

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Q: A box of mass 3.6 kg is given an initial speed of vo = 7.1 m/s along a ramp as indicated in the…

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Q: What is the coefficient of friction between the tires and the surface?

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Q: A basketball player jumps straight up for a ball. To do this, he lowers his body 0.270 m and then…

A: Given, lower height, hi = 0.270 m final height, hf = 0.940 m

Q: A skater with an initial speed of 6.80 m/s stops propelling himself and begins to coast across the…

A: initial velocity (u) = 6.80 m/sFinal velocity (v) = 0 m/s Coefficient of kinetic friction (μk) =…

Static and Kinetic Friction

Kinetic friction comes into existence when there are moving surfaces means in other words we can say that the force which comes into existing between moving surfaces is known as kinetic friction.