PhysicsLAB NextTime Question
Skidding Distances

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The brakes are slammed on a speeding truck and it skids to a stop. If the truck were heavily loaded so it had twice the total mass, the skidding distance would be
 
    a) the same
    b) 1½ times as far
    c) twice as far
    d) four times as far
 
 

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