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An engineer in a locomotive sees a car stuck on the track at a railroad crossing in front of the train. When the engineer first sees the car, the locomotive is 380 m from the crossing and its speed is 24 m/s. If the engineer’s reaction time is 0.66 s, what should be the magnitude of the minimum deceleration to avoid an accident? Answer in units of m/s 2 .

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the magnitude of the deceleration needed to avoid the accident is –0.55 m/s²
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