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Braking the Car

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A car is travelling at 50 meters/second directly towards a brick wall. When the car is 250 meters away from the wall, its brakes are applied and the car slows down with a (negative) acceleration of -5 m/sec$^2$.

Does the car smash into the wall? If so, at what speed.



Robert G. Brown 2000-12-09