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Yes. Assuming the brake system is not damaged brakes can always stop a car faster than the engine can acellerate it.

You can think of it this way. Brakes can generate more "negative horsepower" than an engine can generate positive horsepower.

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How do you explain a car requires brakes in order to stop with law of motion?

The law of motion states that an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an external force. In the case of a car, the brakes provide the necessary force to counteract the car's motion and bring it to a stop. Without brakes, the car would continue moving due to inertia.


If only external force can change the velocity of a body how can the internal force of the brakes bring a car to rest?

It is not the force of the brakes that is stopping the car but rather external force of friction between tires and the road. Notice that no matter what the force at the brakes is, the car won't stop if there is no friction there(ie. the road is slippery). This is an excellent question. Consider the NASA space shuttle. It has brakes, yet the brakes work only on the ground - only while the shuttle is landing. Why? In space, the brakes have nothing to react against. So, as the questioner suspects, the internal forces of the brakes alone are not sufficient to change the velocity of the space shuttle. But once the shuttle lands, and is rolling down the runway, applying the brakes creates friction between the wheels and the runway. And it is the external force of the runway pushing back against the braking wheels that causes the shuttle to slow down.


Everyday situation exhibit newton's first law of motion?

An everyday example of Newton's first law of motion is when a car comes to a stop without applying brakes. This happens because the car continues to move forward due to inertia until a force (friction or brakes) acts to stop its motion. Another example is when a ball rolling on a flat surface eventually stops due to the force of friction balancing its forward motion.


How can you tell if an object is accelerating?

You can tell if an object is accelerating if its speed is changing or if its direction of motion is changing. Acceleration is a vector quantity that includes both changes in speed and changes in direction.


What is the fastest accelerating road car?

Bugatti Veyron @ 0-60mph in 2.5 seconds