In your new job, you are helping to design stunts for a new movie. In one scene
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Question
In your new job, you are helping to design stunts for a new movie. In one scene the writers want a car to jump across a chasm between two cliffs. The car is driving along a horizontal road when it goes over one cliff. Across the chasm, which is 643.9 m deep and 44.2 m wide, is another horizontal road, which is 18.8 metres lower than the first. The car weighs 1247.4 kg. The stunt director wants you to calculate how fast the car will need to go to safely make the jump.Type in the minimum speed the car needs to travel at, if you ignore air resistance. Assume that g=9.8 ms-2.
Enter your answer, in km/hr, to at least one decimal place. Do not type in any units.
Explanation / Answer
the minimum speed required is V = 81.27 km/hr