if a four engine jet accelerates down the runway at 2.0m/s^2 and one of its engines suddenly fails how much acceleration will th

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Feliz [49]

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if a four engine jet accelerates down the runway at 2.0m/s^2 and one of its engines suddenly fails how much acceleration will th

e remaining three produce

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yaroslaw [1] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-24T10:10:16+03:00

If one of the four engines suddenly fail, so this means that we only get 3 / 4 of the original force. Since force is the product of mass and acceleration and mass is constant, therefore we get 3 / 4 of the original acceleration.

So the remaining acceleration is:

a = (2.0 m/s^2) * (3 / 4)