You are driving down IL-53 at 45 miles per hour in your 1325 kg car. As you look down to check a text, a car 75 m in front of you stops. It takes you 2.0 s to look at the text, realize there’s a stopped car in front of you, and hit the brakes. Your car skids along the concrete (µk=0.8 between rubber and dry concrete) and slows. (a) How far does your car travel in those 2.0 s before starting to slow? (b) Does your car stop before hitting the car in front of you? If not, how fast are you going when you strike the car? Show your work and draw a force diagram for full credit. (c) If you were on wet pavement, the coefficient of kinetic friction drops to 0.5. Would your car stop in this case? If not, how fast would it be going when it strikes the car in front?
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