On mountainous downhill roads, escape routes are sometimes placed to the side of the

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On mountainous downhill roads, escape routes are sometimes placed to the side of the road for trucks whose brakes might fail. Assuming a constant upward slope of \(32^{\circ}\), calculate the horizontal and vertical components of the acceleration of a truck that slowed from 120 km/h to rest in 6.0 s. See Fig. 3-42

                             

                                                                   Figure 3-42

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32 degrees

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QUESTION:

On mountainous downhill roads, escape routes are sometimes placed to the side of the road for trucks whose brakes might fail. Assuming a constant upward slope of \(32^{\circ}\), calculate the horizontal and vertical components of the acceleration of a truck that slowed from 120 km/h to rest in 6.0 s. See Fig. 3-42

                             

                                                                   Figure 3-42

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32 degrees

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We need to find out the horizontal and the vertical component of the acceleration of the truck that slowed from  to rest in  seconds.

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