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Grade 11General Physics

your mass together with your bike is 100kg you are riding on a straight road with speed of 18 km per hour a car of mass 1000 kg is approaching towards you with a speed of 36 km per hour if you with your bike and the car as are taken as a system find kinetic energy of the system

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7 Years agoGrade 11
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer7 Years ago
Dear student,

Kinetic energy is independent of direction of velocity.

Kinetic energy of system is\dfrac{1}{2}m_{car}v_{car}^2+\dfrac{1}{2}m_{bike}v_{bike}^2