Basically, when someone is resting in an accelerated vehicle without restraint from a seatbelt, the force of stopping the vehicle will be when inertia occurs, and that force of the vehicle coming to a stop will affect the passenger (without a seatbelt/restraint from another force or object) greatly by throwing them.
For example;
If I were to be riding in a vehicle (without a seatbelt) that's accelerating at 40 m/s^2 and it suddenly gets slammed on the breaks, I will be thrown forward from inside the vehicle.
I hope this helps!
Answer: 500 Watts
Explanation:
Power
is the speed with which work
is done. Its unit is Watts (
), being
.
Power is mathematically expressed as:
(1)
Where
is the time during which work
is performed.
On the other hand, the Work
done by a Force
refers to the release of potential energy from a body that is moved by the application of that force to overcome a resistance along a path. It is a scalar magnitude, and its unit in the International System of Units is the Joule (like energy). Therefore, 1 Joule is the work done by a force of 1 Newton when moving an object, in the direction of the force, along 1 meter (
).
When the applied force is constant and the direction of the force and the direction of the movement are parallel, the equation to calculate it is:
(2)
In this case, we have the following data:



So, let's calculate the work done by Peter and then find how much power is involved:
From (2):
(3)
(4)
Substituting (4) in (1):
(5)
Finally: