Can some solve this problem please??
A car was moving at 12.0m/s when it hit a tree according to the damage which occurred The skid marks before the crash were 10.0m long And the acceleration must have been about -7.0 m/s^2 given the nature of the marksHow fast was the car moving before the skid?
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Expert's answer
2019-10-07T10:47:09-0400
Let the initial speed of the car be v0 and the speed before hitting the tree v=12sm. Let the distance be L=10m, and the acceleration a=−7s2m. The equations of the retarded motion are then:
v=v0+at, L=v0t+2at2.
Substituting t=av−v0 from the first equation into the second, obtain:
L=av0(v−v0)+2a2a(v−v0)2=2a1(v2−v02) , from where the initial speed is v0=v2−2Sa≈16.85sm.
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