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Turning a corner at a typical large intersection in a city means driving your car through a circular arc with a radius of about 25 m. if the maximum advisable acceleration of your vehicle through a turn on wet pavement is 0.40 times the free-fall acceleration, what is the maximum speed at which you should drive through this turn?

User Yurii Soldak
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Answer:

9.89 m/s.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that,

The radius of the circular arc, r = 25 m

The acceleration of the vehicle is 0.40 times the free-fall acceleration i.e.,a = 0.4(9.8) = 3.92 m/sĀ²

Let v is the maximum speed at which you should drive through this turn. It can be solved as follows :


a=(v^2)/(r)\\\\v=āˆš(ar) \\\\v=āˆš(3.92* 25) \\\\=9.89 m/s

So, the maximum speed of the car should be 9.89 m/s.

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