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Grade 10Mechanics

Suppose that you were called upon to give some advice to a lawyer concerning the physics involved in one of her cases The question is whether a driver was exceeding a 30-mi/h speed limit before he made an emergency stop, brakes locked and wheels sliding. The length of skid marks on the road was 19.2 ft. The police officer made the assumption that the maxi mum deceleration of the car would not exceed the acceleration of a freely falling body (= 32 ft/s2) and did not give the driver a ticket. Was the driver speeding? Explain.

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11 Years agoGrade 10
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11 Years ago
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