Explanation:
if the elevator is moving upward with the constant speed the spring scale will read 18 N which is the mass of each of the two blocks attached by separate springs to the scale at opposite ends.
speed of the car = 27 m/s
speed of truck ahead = 10 m/s
relative speed of car with respect to truck

relative deceleration of car

now the distance before they stop with respect to each other is given by



so it will come at the same speed of truck after 20.6 m distance and hence it will not hit the truck as the distance of the truck is 25 m from car
Part b)
Distance traveled by car before it stops is given by



so it will stop after it will cover total 52.1 m distance
Part c)
time taken by the car to stop



now the distance covered by truck in same time

now after the car will stop its distance from the truck is

<em>so the distance between them is 11.5 m</em>
That's the cool thing about free fall. The amount of time it takes to fall remains the same.
In this case, a ball that is simply dropped from rest will fall at the same rate as a ball that had some umph in the horizontal direction.