You testify as an "expert witness" in a case involving an accident in which car A slid into the rear of car B, which was stopped at a red light along a road headed down a hill. You find that the slope of the hill is θ = 12.0°, that the cars were separated by distance d = 25.0 m when the driver of car A put the car into a slide (it lacked any automatic anti-brake-lock system), and that the speed of car A at the onset of braking was v0 = 18.0 m/s.

(a) With what speed did car A hit car B if the coefficient of kinetic friction was 0.60 (dry road surface)?
____ m/s

(b) What was the speed if the coefficient of kinetic friction was 0.10 (road surface covered with wet leaves)?
____ m/s

Respuesta :

F=mgsinα –F(fr)=

= mgsinα - μmgcosα

a=F/m =g(sinα – μcosα)

=9.8(sin14-0.57•cos14)= -3.04 m/s²

v²=v₀²+2ad

v=sqrt{ v₀²+2ad} =

=sqrt{18²+2• (-3.04) •25}=13.1 m/

Newton's second law and kinematics allow us to find the speed with which the car collided are:

   a) Coefficient of friction 0.60, the speed is: v = 11.8 m / s.

   b) Coefficient of friction 0.10, the speed is: v = 16.4 m / s.

Newton's second law says that force is proportional to the product of mass and acceleration.

       Σ F  = m a

Where bold indicates vectors, F is force, m is mass, and acceleration.

A reference system is a coordinate system against which to measure and decompose forces. In the attached we can see a free body diagram of the car that is going down, we take the x axis parallel to the plane and with a positive direction in the direction of movement, the y axis is perpendicular to the plane.

Let's use trigonometry to descompose the weight.

            sin θ = [tex]\frac{W_x}{W}[/tex]

            cos θ = [tex]\frac{W_y}{W}[/tex]

            Wₓ = W sin θ

            W_y = W cos θ

We write Newton's second law for each axis.

y-axis

     N - W_y = 0

     N = mg cos θ

x axis

       Wₓ -fr = ma

         

The friction force is a macroscopic force that opposes the movement of bodies and its expression is:

        fr = μ N

Let's substitute

       m a = m g sin θ - μ m g cos θ

       a = g (sin θ - μ cos θ)

a) They indicate that the coefficient of kinetic friction is μ = 0.60

We calculate

     a = 9.8 (sin 12- 0.6 cos 12)

    a = 3.71 m / s²

Now we can use kinematics to find the velocity after traveling the distance of x = 25 m.

     v² = v₀² - 2 a x

     v² = 18.0² - 2 3.71 25

     v = [tex]\sqrt{138.5}[/tex]

     v = 11.8 m / s

b) They indicate that the coefficient of kinetic friction is μ = 0.10

We calculate

       a = 9.8 (sin 12 - 0.1 cos 12)

      a = 1.08 m / s²

speed is

     v² = 18² - 2 1.08 25

     v = [tex]\sqrt{270}[/tex]  

     v = 16.4 m / s

In conclusion using Newton's second law and kinematics we can find the speed with which the car collided are:

   a) Friction coefficient of  0.60, the speed is: v = 11.8 m / s

   b) Friction coefficient of  0.10, the speed is: v = 16.4 m / s

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