A driver, accelerating too quickly on a horizontal bridge, skids, crashes through the bridge railing an lands in the river 20.0 m below. The police find that the car is (horizontally) 53.6 m from the bridge. a. Determine the speed of the car before crashing through the barrier b. Do you think that this is an overestimate or underestimate, explain.
Displacement, Velocity and Acceleration
In classical mechanics, kinematics deals with the motion of a particle. It deals only with the position, velocity, acceleration, and displacement of a particle. It has no concern about the source of motion.
Linear Displacement
The term "displacement" refers to when something shifts away from its original "location," and "linear" refers to a straight line. As a result, “Linear Displacement” can be described as the movement of an object in a straight line along a single axis, for example, from side to side or up and down. Non-contact sensors such as LVDTs and other linear location sensors can calculate linear displacement. Non-contact sensors such as LVDTs and other linear location sensors can calculate linear displacement. Linear displacement is usually measured in millimeters or inches and may be positive or negative.
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