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Textbook Solutions for Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics

Chapter 8 Problem 8.36

Question

A 1050-kg sports car is moving westbound at 15.0 m/s on a level road when it collides with a 6320-kg truck driving east on the same road at 10.0 m/s. The two vehicles remain locked together after the collision.

(a) What is the velocity (magnitude and direction) of the two vehicles just after the collision?

(b) At what speed should the truck have been moving so that it and the car are both stopped in the collision?

(c) Find the change in kinetic energy of the system of two vehicles for the situations of part (a) and part (b). For which situation is the change in kinetic energy greater in magnitude?

Solution

Step 1 of 4

To solve this question, we shall have to apply the conservation of momentum principle before and after collision.

Given, mass of the sports car

Its speed  (negative sign taken for westbound motion)

Mass of the truck

Its speed

They remain locked after the collision, hence they will have a common speed. Let this speed be V.

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Title Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics 13 
Author Hugh D. Young; Roger A. Freedman; A. Lewis Ford
ISBN 9780321696861

A 1050-kg sports car is moving westbound at on a level

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