A car feels a small force due to the light it sends out from its headlights, equal

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A car feels a small force due to the light it sends out from its headlights, equal to the momentum of the light divided by the time in which it is emitted.

(a) Calculate the power of each headlight, if they exert a total force of 2.00 x 10-2 N backward on the car. 

(b) What is unreasonable about this result? 

(c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?

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