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12 June, 00:27

To test the resilience of its bumper during low-speed collisions, a 4 060-kg automobile is driven into a brick wall. the car's bumper behaves like a spring with a force constant 8.00 106 n/m and compresses 3.72 cm as the car is brought to rest. what was the speed of the car before impact, assuming no mechanical energy is transformed or transferred away during impact with the wall

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  1. 12 June, 00:46
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    Mass of car, m = 4060 kg

    Spring constant, k = 8.00 x 10⁶ N/m

    Spring compression, x = 3.72 cm = 3.72 x 10⁻² m

    Let the car strike the wall with speed v m/s.

    The kinetic energy of the car is released into the stored energy of the spring (if losses are ignored), so that

    (1/2) mv² = (1/2) kx²

    (4060 kg) * (v m/s) ² = (8 x 10⁶ N/m) (3.72 x 10⁻² m) ²

    4060 v² = 1.1701 x 10⁴

    v = 1.6513 m/s

    Answer: 1.65 m/s (nearest hundredth)
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