A railroad car of length L and mass m0 when empty is moving freely on a horizontal

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A railroad car of length L and mass m0 when empty is moving freely on a horizontal track while being loaded with sand from a stationary chute at a rate dm/dt = q. Knowing that the car was approaching the chute at a speed v0, determine

(a) The mass of the car and its load after the car has cleared the chute,

(b) The speed of the car at thattime.

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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