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Posted by m on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 5:25am.

Just as a car tops a 51 meter high hill with a speed of 85 km/h it runs out of gas and coasts from there, without friction or drag. How high, to the nearest meter, will the car coast up the next hill?

physics - Elena, Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 2:58pm
v =85 km/h= 23.61 m/s.

mv^2/2+mgh = mgH.
H = h +v^2/2g =51 +28.44 =79.44 m.

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