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2 cars traveling at 50 miles per hour hit head on what is the force of the impact?
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∙ 13y ago
I don't think this question can even be answered with the given information. We need to know the mass of each car.
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Does Crash severity increases with the speed of the vehicle at impact?
Yes, all things being equal, crash severity does increase proportional to the speed of each vehicle at impact, and is a vector sum. So, there is a big difference between crash severity at impact from being "rear-ended" (when one vehicle is traveling the same direction as another, and impacts the front of their vehicle with the rear of another) and a "head-on" impact (two cars traveling into one another, impacting both front bumpers). In the rear-end impact, you take the momentum (mass times velocity) of the rear, impacting vehicle "A" and subtract the momentum of the front-most impacted vehicle "B", and that gives you the resultant impact force (the difference in momentum being transferred). weak impact scenario example: vehicle A is traveling 60 mph, and vehicle B is the same mass and is traveling 50 mph. The difference in momentum would be the mass times 10 mph...not much. severe impact scenario: vehicle A is traveling 70 mph, and vehicle B is at rest (0 mph)...large impact. In the head-on impact, you have the most severe crash scenario. In this case, you ADD the momentum of vehicle A with the momentum of vehicle B, and you get the resultant force of impact. Even if both vehicles are traveling 30 mph, with the same mass, and have a heaad-on collision, the is close to the same as one vehicle traveling 10 mph and hitting the other vehicle going 70 mph...severe impact.
What is travel time from sun to earth?
Light takes about 8 minutes to travel from Earth to the sun. The sun is about 93 million miles away, so it would take about 177 years to get to the sun in a car traveling at 60 miles per hour, and about 21.5 years to get to the sun in an airplane traveling at 500 miles per hour. (These are just comparisons; cars and airplanes don't travel in outer space.)
A hammer hits a nail the action to be the impact of the hammer on the nail what is the reaction?
The hammer exerts a force on the nail; the nail exerts a force on the hammer.
How many miles per gallon do hydrogen cars get?
About 150
A car and a bus are moving with same kinetic energy When an equal retarding force F is applied to both the cars what will stop first?
The car with the lower mass will be able to stop in a shorter amount of time than the car with the greater mass, if the two cars are traveling at the same speed.
Which impact is greater a car hitting a wall at 80 miles per hour or two cars hitting head on each traveling 80 miles per hour?
Impact is the same.
When you speak of a car traveling at 65 miles per hour you are specifying that cars?
Speed. (NOT velocity.)
If two cars are traveling at 5 miles per hour and hit head on how fast is the colision?
10mph!
Two cars leave the gas station in opposite directions one is traveling 50miles per hour and the other is traveling 45miles per hour how many hours will they be 380 miles apart?
If they are traveling in opposite directions, then they are traveling away from each other at a speed of 95 miles per hour. 380/95=4 They have been traveling for four hours.
Does Crash severity increases with the speed of the vehicle at impact?
Yes, all things being equal, crash severity does increase proportional to the speed of each vehicle at impact, and is a vector sum. So, there is a big difference between crash severity at impact from being "rear-ended" (when one vehicle is traveling the same direction as another, and impacts the front of their vehicle with the rear of another) and a "head-on" impact (two cars traveling into one another, impacting both front bumpers). In the rear-end impact, you take the momentum (mass times velocity) of the rear, impacting vehicle "A" and subtract the momentum of the front-most impacted vehicle "B", and that gives you the resultant impact force (the difference in momentum being transferred). weak impact scenario example: vehicle A is traveling 60 mph, and vehicle B is the same mass and is traveling 50 mph. The difference in momentum would be the mass times 10 mph...not much. severe impact scenario: vehicle A is traveling 70 mph, and vehicle B is at rest (0 mph)...large impact. In the head-on impact, you have the most severe crash scenario. In this case, you ADD the momentum of vehicle A with the momentum of vehicle B, and you get the resultant force of impact. Even if both vehicles are traveling 30 mph, with the same mass, and have a heaad-on collision, the is close to the same as one vehicle traveling 10 mph and hitting the other vehicle going 70 mph...severe impact.
Crash severity increases with the speed of the vehicle at impact?
Yes, all things being equal, crash severity does increase proportional to the speed of each vehicle at impact, and is a vector sum. So, there is a big difference between crash severity at impact from being "rear-ended" (when one vehicle is traveling the same direction as another, and impacts the front of their vehicle with the rear of another) and a "head-on" impact (two cars traveling into one another, impacting both front bumpers). In the rear-end impact, you take the momentum (mass times velocity) of the rear, impacting vehicle "A" and subtract the momentum of the front-most impacted vehicle "B", and that gives you the resultant impact force (the difference in momentum being transferred). weak impact scenario example: vehicle A is traveling 60 mph, and vehicle B is the same mass and is traveling 50 mph. The difference in momentum would be the mass times 10 mph...not much. severe impact scenario: vehicle A is traveling 70 mph, and vehicle B is at rest (0 mph)...large impact. In the head-on impact, you have the most severe crash scenario. In this case, you ADD the momentum of vehicle A with the momentum of vehicle B, and you get the resultant force of impact. Even if both vehicles are traveling 30 mph, with the same mass, and have a heaad-on collision, the is close to the same as one vehicle traveling 10 mph and hitting the other vehicle going 70 mph...severe impact.
What is the net force on the different cars of a subway train that is traveling at constant velocity?
If anything is traveling at constant velocity, then the net force acting on it must be zero.+++Strictly, it is travelling at constant speed, not velocity, because you have not specified the directions of the train and the retarding forces acting on it.
Is it true that if two cars collide while approaching each other at 60 mph that the impact is equivalent to one car hitting a solid steel wall at 120 mph?
No, when two cars collide while approaching each other at 60 mph, the impact would be equivalent to one car hitting a solid steel wall at 60mph.Newtons third law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. When a car is traveling at 60 mph and hits a solid steel wall, the wall applies a force equal to 60 mph back toward the car. This is the same as if a car that is traveling at 60 mph hits another car traveling at 60 mph. In both scenarios, the car is traveling at 60 mph and at the point of collision a force equal to 60 mph is imparted on the car.
Is it possible to have no damage if two cars hit body to body?
It's not likely, but if the cars do not exert a lot of force on each other during impact the damage can sometimes be trivial.
Two cars are each traveling at 72 km h one car is traveling northeast and the other is traveling south the two cars have different a velocities b speeds?
a.
Will two cars traveling at the same speed come to rest at the point of impact in a frontal collision?
No, two cars traveling at the same speed will not come to rest at the point of impact in a frontal collision. The impact will cause both cars to decelerate rapidly, but they will continue to move forward after the collision due to the conservation of momentum. The final resting positions will depend on the specific details of the collision.
Two cars leave town at the same time traveling in opposite directions One car travels at a rate of 60 miles per hour?
Good for it.
