A 1150 kg car is traveling north at 15 m/s. It approaches an intersection, where

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A 1150 kg car is traveling north at 15 m/s. It approaches an intersection, where a second 2050 kg truck is traveling east with a velocity of 14 m/s. All occupants of the vehicles are wearing seat belts and luckily there were no injuries, but they collide in the intersection. The car and truck stick together in the collision and move away from the collision point as a single object. Find the angle that the velocity of the combined system makes with the initial directions of the vehicles. (Do not enter units for this answer.)    

The angle is:_______ ° north above the easterly direction.

Explanation / Answer

tan-1(15*1150/(14*2050)) = 31 degee north above the easterly direction.

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