People who ride motorcycles and bicycles learn to lookout for bumps in the road and

Chapter 15, Problem 74

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People who ride motorcycles and bicycles learn to lookout for bumps in the road and especially for washboarding,a condition in which many equally spacedridges are worn into the road. What is so bad aboutwashboarding? A motorcycle has several springs andshock absorbers in its suspension, but you can modelit as a single spring supporting a block. You can estimatethe force constant by thinking about how far thespring compresses when a heavy rider sits on the seat.A motorcyclist traveling at highway speed must be particularlycareful of washboard bumps that are a certaindistance apart. What is the order of magnitude of theirseparation distance?

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