Question4. A car moving at crashes into a tree and stops in 0.26 s . Calculate the force the seatbelt exerts on a passenger in the car to bring him to a halt. The mass of the passenger is 70 kg . Would the answer to this question be different if the car with the passenger had collided with a car that has a mass equal to and is traveling in the opposite direction and at the same speed?
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The force the seatbelt exerts on the passenger is approximately .
The force would be the *same* if the car collided head-on with another car of equal mass and speed.
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