Answer:
The average net force on the truck is 375 Newtons.
Explanation:
Using Newton's 3rd equation of motion, we have :
×a×s
where, v = final velocity = 25 m/s
u = initial velocity = 20 m/s
a = acceleration
s = distance traveled = 300 m
Using these values in the above equation, we get acceleration = 0.375 m/
Using Newton's second law, we have:
F=m×a
where m = mass = 1000 kg
a= acceleration = 0.375 m/
Putting values we have F=375 N
Answer:
, the minus meaning west.
Explanation:
We know that linear momentum must be conserved, so it will be the same before () and after (
) the explosion. We will take the east direction as positive.
Before the explosion we have .
After the explosion we have pieces 1 and 2, so .
These equations must be vectorial but since we look at the instants before and after the explosions and the bomb fragments in only 2 pieces the problem can be simplified in one dimension with direction east-west.
Since we know momentum must be conserved we have:
Which means (since we want and
):
So for our values we have: