The National Transportation Safety Board is testing the crashworthiness of a new car. The 2340-kg vehicle is driven at 12.6 km/h into an abutment. During impact, the center of mass of the car moves forward 64.0 cm; the abutment is compressed by 8.30 cm. Ignore friction between the car and the road. (a) Find the force, assumed constant, exerted by the abutment on the car. (b) By h

That depends on what kind of environ meant it is in  in space it has the same force that was applied when the velocity was gained

Answer: a charge of -1.0  × 10⁻⁴ c must be placed  at x = 26 m.the sign of the charge will be the same sign as the  -4.0  µc charge.======electricstatic force between two point charges  is given by    where k is coulomb's constant,  8.99×10⁹  n·m²/c², q₁ and q₂ are the point charges, and r is the distance between the two point charges.assign positive to q₁let q₁ =  6.0 µc, q₂ = -4.0  µc, q₀ represent the charge at the origin, and q₃ represent this new charge to place.the charge at the origin q₀ would experience the following force f₀₁ from q₁, with r = 6.0 m (note that 1  µc = 10⁻⁶ c)    the force from q₂    the force from q₃    the net force on the origin charge, q₀, has to be zero for no electrostatic forcehaving an equation where k and q₀ can be divided out of the equation will allow us to solve for q₃    isolating:     a charge of -1.0  × 10⁻⁴ c must be placed  at x = 26 m.the sign of the charge will be the same as the  -4.0  µc charge

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