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Homework Statement
Your right rear tire normally has to support a weight of 3000N. The contact area of your tire with the road is 200 square cm. If the pressure in your tire is suddenly reduced from 32 pounds psi to 16 pounds psi, what must be the new contact area to support the car?
Homework Equations
Classical mechanics, pressures in Pascal etc.
The Attempt at a Solution
Not quite sure where to go with this... My intuition tells me that the area should be larger but I'm not sure what equation to start plugging stuff into to prove it.