The aim of the assignment is to carry out an analysis of the motion of two cars moving downhill and develop a programme code and animation illustrating the motion of the cars possibilities for collisions.
The Cars A and B are travelling in the same direction along a straight road with a gradient of 10' with the horizontal.
The driver of the leading vehicle A executes an emergency stop in which the wheels lock immediately and the vehicle skids, without changing direction, to a stop. Immediately before the emergency stop the cars A and B are moving with uniform speed of 90km/h and 108 km/h correspondingly and the distance between them is d.
The driver of vehicle B reacts to the brake lights of vehicle A after a time of 1s and executes an emergency stop similar to that of A. The effective coefficients of friction for the cars A and B are respectively 0.8 and 0.5 the gravitational acceleration is g = 9.8 ms-2.