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Explain how the forces involved in a car crash could lead to multiple cars coming to a complete stop. Use information from the article in order to answer this question. You should be answering in at least 2 complete sentences.

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Answer:

Newton's First Law...

Step-by-step explanation:

The only force that acts on the car is the sudden deceleration from v to 0 velocity in a brief period of time, due to the collision with another object. However, when viewing the total system, the collision in the situation with two cars releases twice as much energy as the collision with a wall