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What force, assumed constant, acted on the car during impact?

The National Transportation Safety Board is testing the crashworthiness of a new car. The 2.02e3 kg vehicle, moving at 10.4 m/s, is allowed to collide with a bridge abutment, being brought to rest in a time of 0.511 s. What force, assumed constant, acted on the car during impact? _____ N Impulse and Momentum http://www.webassign.net/

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1. Using the impulse-momentum theorem, the force acting on the car should be approximately 41,112 N.