If the vehicle used as an example in this chapter accelerates to 50 km/h between each stop

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If the vehicle used as an example in this chapter accelerates to 50 km/h between each stop light, find the maximum distance between stoplights for which the energy used to accelerate the vehicle exceeds the energy lost to air resistance. (May assume that the time for acceleration is negligible in this calculation.) How does the result change if the vehicle travels at 100 km/h between lights? Why?

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The Physics of Energy

ISBN: 978-1107016651

1st edition

Authors: Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor

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