1.) It\'s the holiday break and you decide to take a road trip with your friends

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1.) It's the holiday break and you decide to take a road trip with your friends to go work in New Orleans building a house for Habitat for Humanity. You have a friend who has a huge Expedition. You and your friends pack up suitcases with your own clothes, and you transport a number of extremely heavy boxes of tools to help with the construction of the houses. The Expedition rides extremely high off the ground and you worry about rolling over the SUV during the trip. To help minimize this possibility you should:

A.) Put all the heavy boxes in the luggage rack on the roof.

B.) Put all the heavy boxes in the back of the SUV on the floor of the cargo area, and the suitcases on top.

C.) Increase the tire pressure in the tires.

D.) Decrease the tire pressure in the tires.

2.) A woman pilot experiences 5g's of acceleration or 52 m/s2. If she weighs normally 120 pounds on land, what is her apparent weight during this extreme acceleration?

A.) She is wieghtless.

B.) 24 pounds.

C.) 120 pounds.

D.) 600 pounds.

Explanation / Answer

1... b (it will cause the centre of mass of vehicle to move downwards thus reducing toppling)

2...a

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