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<span>Technician a says that to prevent injuries in an auto accident, all steering columns have a break-off steering wheel. technician b says that to prevent injuries in an accident, all steering columns are now fitted with a flexible rubber tube. Both technicians are correct. The </span>vehicle manufacturers use break away steering column mounting brackets to protect the driver in an accident. The <span>vehicle manufacturers are required to use collapsible shafts in the steering column. </span>
Assume the motion when you are in the car or in the school bus to go to the school.
To describe the motion the first thing you need is a point of reference. Assume this is your house.
This should be a description:
- When you are sitting and the car has not started to move you are at rest.
- The car starts moving from rest, gaining speed, accelerating. You start to move away from your house, with a positive velocity (from you house to your school) and positive acceleration (velocity increases).
- The car reaches a limit speed of 40mph, and then moves at constant speed. The motion is uniform, the velocity is constant, positive, since you move in the same direction), and the acceleration is zero.
- When the car approaches the school, the driver starts to slow down. Then, you speed is lower but yet the velocity is positive, as you are going in the same direction. The acceleration is negative because it is in the opposite direction of the motion.
- When the car stops, you are again at rest: zero velocity and zero acceleration.
- In all the path your velocity was positive, constant at times (zero acceleration) and variable at others (accelerating or decelerating).
- When you comeback home, then you can start to compute negative velocities, as you will be decreasing the distance from your point of reference (your house).
Kepler derived his three laws of planetary motion entirely from
observations of the planets and their motions in the sky.
Newton published his law of universal gravitation almost a hundred
years later. Using some calculus and some analytic geometry, which
any serious sophomore in an engineering college should be able to do,
it can be shown that IF Newton's law of gravitation is correct, then it MUST
lead to Kepler's laws. Gravity, as Newton described it, must make the planets
in their orbits behave exactly as they do.
This demonstration is a tremendous boost for the work of both Kepler
and Newton.
