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(a) A daredevil is attempting to jump his motorcycle over
Chapter 3, Problem 28(choose chapter or problem)
(a) A daredevil is attempting to jump his motorcycle over a line of buses parked end to end by driving up a 32º ramp at a speed of 40.0 m/s (144 km/h) . How many buses can he clear if the top of the takeoff ramp is at the same height as the bus tops and the buses are 20.0 m long?
(b) Discuss what your answer implies about the margin of error in this act—that is, consider how much greater the range is than the horizontal distance he must travel to miss the end of the last bus. (Neglect air resistance.)
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QUESTION:
(a) A daredevil is attempting to jump his motorcycle over a line of buses parked end to end by driving up a 32º ramp at a speed of 40.0 m/s (144 km/h) . How many buses can he clear if the top of the takeoff ramp is at the same height as the bus tops and the buses are 20.0 m long?
(b) Discuss what your answer implies about the margin of error in this act—that is, consider how much greater the range is than the horizontal distance he must travel to miss the end of the last bus. (Neglect air resistance.)
ANSWER:
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In the given problem, a motorcycle driving over a ramp of \(\theta=32^{\circ}\) at a speed of \(v=40 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}\).
Adjacent to ramp, the buses of width \(w=20 m\) with same height as ramp are placed side by side as shown in the figure. Here we need to calculate the number of buses \(N_{\text {buses }}=?\) the motorcycle clears if the takeoff is made on the top of ramp. Also we need to calculate the distance he covers from the last bus.
