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    Optimizing Friction for Safe Highway Curves

    you want to look how someone else approached in on yahoo answers. i don't understand it though, maybe you can. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmGPlFpaiPmxVkSXpmEaQ0jsy6IX?qid=20070225165124AAnw06M
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    Calculating Impact Velocity on an Incline: Solving for Coefficient of Friction

    but if the acceleration is retarding, doesn't that mean it is slowing?
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    Calculating Impact Velocity on an Incline: Solving for Coefficient of Friction

    i'm confused. i guess i assumed braking would decelerate. I am so sick and tired of this question.
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    Calculating Impact Velocity on an Incline: Solving for Coefficient of Friction

    i don't have the answers. but, they don't even seem reasonable, because they are more than the initial.
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    Optimizing Friction for Safe Highway Curves

    maybe find the angle of the curve? i honestly have no clue...
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    Optimizing Friction for Safe Highway Curves

    Homework Statement A banked circular highway curve is designed for traffic moving at 60 km/h. The radius of the curve is 230 m. Traffic is moving along the highway at 35 km/h on a rainy day. What is the minimum coefficient of friction between tires and road that will allow cars to negotiate...
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    Calculating Impact Velocity on an Incline: Solving for Coefficient of Friction

    I've been trying to figure this one out for two days now. No Dice. If you feel like working the whole thing out, by all means, cause everyone who tried to help me so far was wrong. Homework Statement You testify as an "expert witness" in a case involving an accident in which car A slid...
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