A baby leaves a bowl of food on the floor and crawls westwards to fetch a toy placed 5 m away.At the same time a dog walks eastw
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(a) -2451 N
We can start by calculating the acceleration of the car. We have:
is the initial velocity
v = 0 is the final velocity of the car
d = 125 m is the stopping distance
So we can use the following equation
To find the acceleration of the car, a:
Now we can use Newton's second Law:
F = ma
where m = 1100 kg to find the force exerted on the car in order to stop it; we find:
and the negative sign means the force is in the opposite direction to the motion of the car.
(b)
We can use again the equation
To find the acceleration of the car. This time we have
is the initial velocity
v = 0 is the final velocity of the car
d = 2.0 m is the stopping distance
Substituting and solving for a,
So now we can find the force exerted on the car by using again Newton's second law:
As we can see, the force is much stronger than the force exerted in part a).
The magnitude of the force of friction is 40 N
Explanation:
To solve the problem, we just have to analyze the forces acting on the student and the scooter along the horizontal direction. We have:
- The constant pushing force forward, of magnitude F = 40 N
- The frictional force, acting backward,
Since the two forces are in opposite direction, the equation of motion is
where
m is the mass of the student+scooter
a is the acceleration
However, here the scooter is moving at constant speed: this means that its acceleration is zero, so
a = 0
And therefore,
which means that the magnitude of the force of friction is also equal to 40 N.
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