Can you please solve the next problem showing step by step in a picture. An oil tanker's engines have broken down, and the wind has accelerated the tanker to a speed of 1.5 m/s straight toward a reef. When the tanker is 500 m from the reef, the wind dies down just as the engineer gets the engine going again, The rudder is stuck, so the only choice is to try to accelerate backwards away from the reef. The mass of the tanker and cargo is 3.6 x 107 kg, and the engines produce a net horizontal force of 8.0 x 104 N on the tanker. Will the ship hit the reef? If it does, will the oil be safe? The hull can withstand an impact at a speed of 0.2 m/s or less. [The oil taker will hit the reef with a speed of 0.17 m/s. The oil will be safe.
Can you please solve the next problem showing step by step in a picture.
An oil tanker's engines have broken down,
and the wind has accelerated the tanker to
a speed of 1.5 m/s straight toward a reef.
When the tanker is 500 m from the reef,
the wind dies down just as the engineer
gets the engine going again, The rudder is
stuck, so the only choice is to try to
accelerate backwards away from the reef. The mass of the tanker and cargo is 3.6 x 107 kg, and the engines produce
a net horizontal force of 8.0 x 104 N on the tanker. Will the ship hit the reef? If it does, will the oil be safe? The hull
can withstand an impact at a speed of 0.2 m/s or less. [The oil taker will hit the reef with a speed of 0.17 m/s. The oil
will be safe.
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