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physics of driving a car

necharles17

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There is a ton of physics while driving a car. First of all, you can find almost anything you want to such as velocity, distance, time, acceleration, momentum, power, work etc. The thing I wanted to find out when I was driving my dads car was the momentum of the car. I was going about 8 m/s down my dads street in the summer when the asphalt was dry. I could find my momentum from the equation p=mv where m is mass and v is velocity. I estimated that the car weighed 1550 kg and I weigh 77kg so the total mass would be 1627kg. Using the equation from earlier, p=mv = (1627kg)(8m/s)=13016 kg*m/s. That is a pretty big momentum and a squirrel would have no chance against a car with a momentum of that much

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