A person standing on a bridge overlooking a highway, thinking of Isaac Newton, unintentionally drops an apple over the railing just as the front end of a vehicle passes directly below the railing. How far above the vehicle must the railing be if the apple narrowly misses colliding with the back end of the truck if the vehicle is traveling at 55 km/h and is 12 m long?
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.
show all necessary computations. topic is one dimensional motion
![A person standing on a bridge overlooking a highway, thinking of Isaac Newton, unintentionally
drops an apple over the railing just as the front end of a vehicle passes directly below the railing.
How far above the vehicle must the railing be if the apple narrowly misses colliding with the back
end of the truck if the vehicle is traveling at 55 km/h and is 12 m long?](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F58739915-0b0f-476b-8ff6-24e3e49de141%2F90ba2e43-2faa-43f6-9836-64bb27e72eff%2F4h8amnn_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
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