A car is moving along a straight horizontal road with a velocity of 72 km h –1 . If µ s = 0.5, then the shortest distance in which the car can be stopped is [Take g = 10 ms –2 ].
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v 2 = u 2 + 2as ⇒ 0 = u 2 + 2(– μ g) s
s = 
= 40
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