Steep safety ramps are built beside mountain highways to enable vehicles with defective brakes to stop safely.
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Steep safety ramps are built beside mountain highways to enable vehicles with defective brakes to stop safely. A truck enters a 750-ft ramp at a high speed v0 and travels 540 ft in 6 s at constant deceleration before its speed is reduced to v0/ 2. Assuming the same constant deceleration, determine(a) The additional time required for the truck to stop,(b) The additional distance traveled by thetruck.
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics
ISBN: 978-0073212227
8th Edition
Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell
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