Speed Before Impact

Speed Before Impact#

The figure below shows the force on a sedan during a typical collision used during safety tests. The mass of the sedan is 580 \(kg\) and it comes to rest at the end of the collision.

A graph of force in the unit of 10 sub 5 newtons, and time in ms. The graph shows a grid of boxes covering the graph and a curve. There are approximately 27 boxes under the curve.

Part 1#

What was the approximate speed of the sedan just before the impact? Choose the best answer.

Answer Section#

  • 93.0 \(m/s\)

  • 47.0 \(m/s\)

  • 23.0 \(m/s\)

  • 12.0 \(m/s\)

  • 0 \(m/s\)

Attribution#

Problem is licensed under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
The Creative Commons 4.0 license requiring attribution-BY, non-commercial-NC, and share-alike-SA license.

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