A car originally traveling at 30 m/s manages to brake for 5.0 seconds while traveling 125 m downhill. At that point the brakes fail. After an additional 5.0 seconds it travels an additional 150 m down the hill. What was the acceleration of the car after the brakes failed?


4.0 m/s2

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Imagine that at a certain place in a river, water moves horizontally to the left. Consider an oriented sur-face that faces in a direction that is 30° upward of right. The flux of water velocity through this surface is

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