You testify as an expert witness in a case involving an accident in which car A slid into the rear of car B, which was stopped at a red light along a road headed down a hill (Fig. 6-40). You find that the slope of the hill is `theta= 1.0^(@)`, that the cars were separated by distance d = 30.0 m when the driver of car A put the car into a slide (it lacked any automatic anti-brake-lock system), and that the speed of car A at the onset of braking was `v=18.0` m/s. With what speed did car A hit car B if the coefficient of kinetic friction was (a) 0.60 (dry road surface) and (b) 0.10 (road surface covered with wet leaves)? mu Figure 6-20 Problem 16

Explanation

`(a) 10.0 m//s(b) 19.7 m//s`