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Homework Statement
You are transporting a $150,000 Dale Chihouly glass sculpture in your van. You stop at a hotel, where they have a valet parking. The valet gladly takes the wheel of your car and covers 20 meters from rest in 2.00 seconds. Between the sculpture and the floor of you van, mustatic=1.00 and mukinetic=.60, the sculpture is 3.00 meters from the back of the van.
a. Prove that the sculpture will start sliding towards the back of the van.
b. How long will it take the sculpture to accelerate from rest to slide 3.0 meters and smash into the back wall of the van?
c. How fast will the sculpture be going as it collides with the back of the van?
Homework Equations
2ax=v2-vo2
There might be more, but I don't know.
The Attempt at a Solution
a. 2a(20)=102-0
a=2.5m/s2