Kyle is driving his car at 15 m/s when he noticed that he is approaching a stalled truck that is approximately 35m away . He steps on the brakes and the car stops 1.0 m away from the stalled truck . At what rate did the car slow down ? Assume that Kyle's reaction time is 0.20s . Reaction time is the time for a person to notice , think and act in response to a given situation .
Below is a lift at Gugulethu mall depicted. The lift travels from the ground floor to the
eighth floor as shown. You have made studies during its installation and found out that
the cable has a mass of 6.3 kg/m. The lift cage has a mass of 750 kg and there are
three people in the lift, two weighing 75 kg each. The third person is you. Answer the
following questions without neglecting the weight of the third person in the lift
A shopper pushes her 25 kg grocery cart by a force of 225 N inclined at an
angle of 60° with the horizontal through a distance of 7.5 m as shown in the
free body diagram. Find the work done by (a) the 225 N force and (b) friction.
Assume that the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.32.