In 1964, after the 1250-kg jet-powered car Spirit of

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In 1964, after the 1250-kg jet-powered car Spirit of America lost its parachute and went out of control during a run at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, it left skid marks about long. (This earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest skid marks.) (a) If the car was moving initially at a speed of about and was still going at about when it crashed into a brine pond, estimate the coefficient of kinetic friction (b) What was the kinetic energy of the car after the skid began?

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