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    Pounds Of Explosives Necessary

    Thank you so much for your help so far. But unfortunally, it is 2am where I am. So I am gonna have to call it a night. Hopefully we can pick it back up tomorrow!
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    Pounds Of Explosives Necessary

    the front wheels are supposed to be touching the ground. makes 35 degree angle with the ground,.
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    Pounds Of Explosives Necessary

    I will attach an image. Give me just a sec
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    Pounds Of Explosives Necessary

    In my mind, In the vertical direction, there is 3 forces. Force from the blast, FDrag and, F of gravity. Fblast-Fdrag-mg=ma will the blast require horziontal components? I was origionally thinking no... Edit: Now that I think of it, does gravity need to be added? Becuase had there been no drag...
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    Pounds Of Explosives Necessary

    I have a diagram of this drawn out. Let me know if you would like me to attach it for more clarification!
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    Pounds Of Explosives Necessary

    Hello! Apologies if I'm missing some information but here is my thinking so far. Had the drag force not been there, the potential energy would equal the amount of energy the explosives have to disipate to get the car to that height. However, since drag force is included it makes it more...
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    Final Velocity of a car with a opposing decreasing drag force

    Wow. thank you so much. both of you, for your time and patience through this problem. I truly appreciate it. I could have hired a tutor and still wouldn't have recieved such great step by step help. Have a great rest of your day, yall deserve it! Take it easy!
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    Final Velocity of a car with a opposing decreasing drag force

    seems like it's plug in time and thats it!
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    Final Velocity of a car with a opposing decreasing drag force

    oh boy its been awhile since i've done this. the rhs ln disappears leaving just vf/vi. but for the left side, does all of the left side become the exponent for e?
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    Final Velocity of a car with a opposing decreasing drag force

    I can turn the rhs to ln(vf/vi) but that is the only simplificiation I see? Do you agree?
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    Final Velocity of a car with a opposing decreasing drag force

    i changed the left side back to xi and xf :)
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