A trucks brakes fail while driving down a hill at a speed of 92 km/hr at the emergency ramp shown.  If θ=15º, determine the minimum ramp length L  in meters necessary to stop the truck.  Use g = 10 N/kg and neglect friction.  Don;t forget to convert units

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A trucks brakes fail while driving down a hill at a speed of 92 km/hr at the emergency ramp shown.  If θ=15º, determine the minimum ramp length L  in meters necessary to stop the truck.  Use g = 10 N/kg and neglect friction.  Don;t forget to convert units.

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Given:

speed of truck= 92km/hr= 25.5555m/s

mass of truck is 'M'

kinetic energy of truck = 1/2 *M*V2= 1/2 *M*( 25.5555)2= 326.54M joules

as friction is neglected 

so given kinetic energy stored in gravitational potential energy = Mgh

where H= Lsinθ

where L is the length of the ramp.

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