A ten wheeler truck with a mass of 1.14x104kg is moving at 55 km/hr at the moment that the traffic light changes from green to red. If it takes the truck 25 s to stop find (a) the initial kinetic energy of the truck, (b) the coefficient of friction between the tires and the road.

A ten wheeler truck with a mass of 1.14x104kg is moving at 55 km/hr at the moment that the traffic light changes from green to red. If it takes the truck 25 s to stop find (a) the initial kinetic energy of the truck, (b) the coefficient of friction between the tires and the road.

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Chapter5: Energy

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