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**Not a homework problem but I was directed here**
Hello, over the weekend I was involved in a car accident and received a careless driving ticket because the officer believed that I was going an insane amount of speed. My first instinct to react to this would to be to sit down and do the physics behind it. Now I know that the physics I have used here is not going to be 100% precise as I have not factored in the crumple zone of the car, or how much hitting the curb had slowed me down. However, I am just trying to get a general idea of how fast I truly hit the box. I have not taken physics for over a year and a half now so I am a bit rusty so please bear with me.
A 1590kg car is traveling at an unknown speed. It hits a 1140kg metal box sitting on concreate which is not bolted down. If the box moves 1m, how fast was the car traveling right before impact. Based on my research I have found that the coefficient of friction of steel on concrete varies between 0.45 and 0.7, let's use 0.7 for the benefit of the doubt. Correct me if I'm wrong on this but this would be how i would go about this equation:
Normal force of box=Frictional force=MA=(1140kg)(9.81m/s^2)=11,183.4N
W=FDµ (11,183.4N)(1m)(0.7)= 7,828.38J
Ekinitial=Ekfinal (0.5)(M)(V)^2=7,828.38J V=√((2)(7828.38J))/(1590kg)
The speed of the car before the crash is 3.14m/s
1m/s=3.6km/h (3.14m/s)(3.6)= 11.3km/h
Hello, over the weekend I was involved in a car accident and received a careless driving ticket because the officer believed that I was going an insane amount of speed. My first instinct to react to this would to be to sit down and do the physics behind it. Now I know that the physics I have used here is not going to be 100% precise as I have not factored in the crumple zone of the car, or how much hitting the curb had slowed me down. However, I am just trying to get a general idea of how fast I truly hit the box. I have not taken physics for over a year and a half now so I am a bit rusty so please bear with me.
A 1590kg car is traveling at an unknown speed. It hits a 1140kg metal box sitting on concreate which is not bolted down. If the box moves 1m, how fast was the car traveling right before impact. Based on my research I have found that the coefficient of friction of steel on concrete varies between 0.45 and 0.7, let's use 0.7 for the benefit of the doubt. Correct me if I'm wrong on this but this would be how i would go about this equation:
Normal force of box=Frictional force=MA=(1140kg)(9.81m/s^2)=11,183.4N
W=FDµ (11,183.4N)(1m)(0.7)= 7,828.38J
Ekinitial=Ekfinal (0.5)(M)(V)^2=7,828.38J V=√((2)(7828.38J))/(1590kg)
The speed of the car before the crash is 3.14m/s
1m/s=3.6km/h (3.14m/s)(3.6)= 11.3km/h