Essential University Physics
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Chapter 2, Problem 33E
California’s Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) uses an automatic braking system triggered by earthquake warnings. The system is designed to prevent disastrous accidents involving trains traveling at a maximum of 112 km/h and carrying a total of some 45,000 passengers at rush hour. If it takes a train 24 s to brake to a stop, how much advance warning of an earthquake is needed to bring a 112-km/h train to a reasonably safe speed of 42 km/h when the earthquake strikes?
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