A young woman buys an inexpensive used car for stock car

Chapter 5, Problem 73

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A young woman buys an inexpensive used car for stock car racing. It can attain highway speed with an acceleration of 8.40 mi/h s. By making changes to its engine, she can increase the net horizontal force on the car by 24.0%. With much less expense, she can remove material from the body of the car to decrease its mass by 24.0%. (a) Which of these two changes, if either, will result in the greater increase in the cars acceleration? (b) If she makes both changes, what acceleration can she attain?

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