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  • What was the potential energy of truck 1 at the top of the hill?

    May 24, 2010 by  
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    You are a traffic accident investigator. You have arrived at the scene of an accident. Two trucks of equal mass(3,000 kg each) were involved in a rear-end accident at a stop sign. here is what you know:
    Truck 1 approched the intersection from the top of a 22-meter hill.
    Truck 2 was on a flat stretch of road directly in front of truck 1.
    At the bottom of the hill, before braking for the stop sign, Truck 1 was going 20 m/s and truck 2 was going 35 m/s.
    From the skid marks on the road you can see that truck 1 applied force on its brakes for 2 seconds, 80 meters before the stop sign.
    There were no skid marks left by truck 2. The collision occured at the stop sign, where truck 2 had stopped.
    After the collision, both trucks were moving together in the same direction at 10 m/s, before slowly rolling to a stop.
    You must now push truck 2 using 1,000 N of force, 8 meters off the side of the road so no one else gets hurt.


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    One Response to “What was the potential energy of truck 1 at the top of the hill?”

    1. Albert on May 24th, 2010 2:54 pm

      The gravitational potential energy of the truck at the top of the hill is calculated as mass x gravity x height

      3000 x 9.81 x 22 = 647.46kJ

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