I was going to beg off until tomorrow, but this one is nothing like those others. Why, at only 40km/hr, we can ignore any relativistic correction, and just go with Newton.
To put a finer point on it, let's give the car a direction. Say it's driving North.
a). From the point of view of the car, its driver, and passengers if any, the pole moves past them, heading south, at 40 km/hour .
b). From the point of view of the pole, and any bugs or birds that may be sitting on it at the moment, the car and its contents whiz past them, heading north, at 40 km/hour.
c). A train, steaming North at 80 km/hour on a track that exactly parallels the road, overtakes and passes the car at just about the same time as the drama in (a) and (b) above is unfolding.
The rail motorman, fireman, and conductor all agree on what they have seen. From their point of view, they see the car moving south at 40 km/hr, and the pole moving south at 80 km/hr.
Now follow me here . . .
The car and the pole are both seen to be moving south. BUT ... Since the pole is moving south faster than the car is, it easily overtakes the car, and passes it . . . going south.
That's what everybody on the train sees.
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Finally ... since you posed this question as having something to do with your fixation on Relativity, there's one more question that needs to be considered before we can put this whole thing away:
You glibly stated in the question that the car is driving along at 40 km/hour ... AS IF we didn't need to know with respect to what, or in whose reference frame. Now I ask you ... was that sloppy or what ? ! ?
Of course, I came along later and did the same thing with the train, but I am not here to make fun of myself ! Only of others.
The point is . . . the whole purpose of this question, obviously, is to get the student accustomed to the concept that speed has no meaning in and of itself, only relative to something else. And if the given speed of the car ...40 km/hour ... was measured relative to anything else but the ground on which it drove, as we assumed it was, then all of the answers in (a) and (b) could have been different.
And now I believe that I have adequately milked this one for 50 points worth.
If one tire has a slow leak, the air pressure within the tire will_DECREASE____with time due to outflow of air , the surface area between the tire and the road will__INCREASE__in time,due to flattening of tire.
The net force the tire exerts on the road will_REMAIN CONSTANT____in time. It is so because force does not depend upon area. It is pressure which depends upon area. As there is no change in the weight of the car , force on the road will remain constant.
The number of significant figures in the answer should be the same as the number with the least number of significant figures that any of the digits in the equation have.
32 has 2 significant figures so the answer has to be 2 significant figures which is 40.
the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) decided to make photographic captures from drones to the volcanic surfaces, which allowed through observations to understand things like the characteristics of the lava, the height of the volcanic plumes (among others).
Podemos ver en el siguiente enlace un ejemplo de fotografía tomada desde un dron al Kilauea.
