A 1000-kg car traveling west at 30 m/s collides with a 1000-kg truck traveling south at 20 m/s. The occupants, wearing seat belts, are uninjured, but the two vehicles move away from the impact point as one. The insurance adjustor asks you to find the velocity of the wreckage just after impact. What is your answer?

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5. A 1000-kg car traveling west at 30 m/s collides with a 1000-kg truck traveling south at 20 m/s. The
occupants, wearing seat belts, are uninjured, but the two vehicles move away from the impact point
as one. The insurance adjustor asks you to find the velocity of the wreckage just after impact. What
is your answer?
Transcribed Image Text:5. A 1000-kg car traveling west at 30 m/s collides with a 1000-kg truck traveling south at 20 m/s. The occupants, wearing seat belts, are uninjured, but the two vehicles move away from the impact point as one. The insurance adjustor asks you to find the velocity of the wreckage just after impact. What is your answer?
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Step 1To determine,

Velocity of the wreckage after the impact.

Given,

Speed of carvc=30 ms-1speed of truckvt=20 ms-1mass of truck(m)=mass of car(m)=1000 kg

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