7 - A heavy 18 wheeler truck crashes head on with a very light Volkswagen. A - W

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7 - A heavy 18 wheeler truck crashes head on with a very light Volkswagen.
A - Which vehicle experiences the greater force, and why? B - Which vehicle experiences the greater acceleration, and why? C - Which vehicle would you rather be in, the truck, the VW and why?
5 - When Michael Jordan leaps to slam-dunk the basketball, what is the longest time he is in the air? (The same holds true for the leap of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.)
6 - When Michael Jordan jumps, how much above the ground are his feet?
7 - What enables Michel Jordan to jump, in other words what pushes him up? What enables a skate boarder to leap off the ground?
8- The men's record holder for the high jump is Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) with a jump of 2.45 meters (a bit over 8 feet) set in 1993. How can a human jump over 8 feet without a pole? 7 - A heavy 18 wheeler truck crashes head on with a very light Volkswagen.
A - Which vehicle experiences the greater force, and why? B - Which vehicle experiences the greater acceleration, and why? C - Which vehicle would you rather be in, the truck, the VW and why?
5 - When Michael Jordan leaps to slam-dunk the basketball, what is the longest time he is in the air? (The same holds true for the leap of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.)
6 - When Michael Jordan jumps, how much above the ground are his feet?
7 - What enables Michel Jordan to jump, in other words what pushes him up? What enables a skate boarder to leap off the ground?
8- The men's record holder for the high jump is Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) with a jump of 2.45 meters (a bit over 8 feet) set in 1993. How can a human jump over 8 feet without a pole? 7 - A heavy 18 wheeler truck crashes head on with a very light Volkswagen.
A - Which vehicle experiences the greater force, and why? B - Which vehicle experiences the greater acceleration, and why? C - Which vehicle would you rather be in, the truck, the VW and why?
5 - When Michael Jordan leaps to slam-dunk the basketball, what is the longest time he is in the air? (The same holds true for the leap of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.)
6 - When Michael Jordan jumps, how much above the ground are his feet?
7 - What enables Michel Jordan to jump, in other words what pushes him up? What enables a skate boarder to leap off the ground?
8- The men's record holder for the high jump is Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) with a jump of 2.45 meters (a bit over 8 feet) set in 1993. How can a human jump over 8 feet without a pole?

Explanation / Answer

7A) Both will experience same force, because of newtons third law of motion.

B) Volkswagen experiences larger acceleration because its mass is less.

C) Truck, because its velocity will change by lesser amount, causing less damage.

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