You are on a crew trying to devise some special effects for an upcoming movie, The Quick
Question:
You are on a crew trying to devise some special effects for an upcoming movie, "The Quick and the Querulous." The team has tied a rope between a 1000-kg car and a giant 10,000-kg truck, intent on sending them down a 100-meter vertical cliff to make a big explosion. They're asking you for your physics expertise to tell them what will happen. The car is right next to the cliff, and the truck is 500 ft away from the edge. The car will be pushed down the cliff, pulling the rope taut and dragging the truck with it. For this problem, neglect friction and assume a value of g = 10 m/s2 to make calculations a bit easier.
(A) What will be the truck's final velocity? (Hint: consider the car and the truck together, but the car will pull on the truck only until the car reaches the bottom of the cliff.)
(B) How far will the truck land from the base of the cliff ? The crew hopes it won't fall into the ocean 200 feet away, which would extinguish any chance of a huge fireball.
International Business The Challenge of Global Competition
ISBN: 978-0077606121
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Authors: Donald Geringer Ball, J. Michael Geringer, Jeanne M. McNett, Michael S. Minor