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  1. You are the juror of a case involving a drunken driver whose 964.0 kg sports car ran into a stationary 2058.0 kg station wagon stopped at a red traffic light. The cars stuck together and slid with locked wheels for 11.0 m before coming to rest. The coefficient of sliding friction on the dry road was 0.9.
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  3. (a) Estimate the speed of the sports car when it hit the station wagon.
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  5. (b) Estimate the instantaneous acceleration of the sports car during the actual collision if the colliding cars reach the same final speed after collapsing a combined total distance of 1.0 m.
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