Current Attempt in ProgressWhen a high-speed passenger train traveling at vp = 160 km/h rounds a bend, the engineer is shocked to see that a locomotive hasimproperly entered onto the track from a siding and is a distance D = 652 m ahead (see the figure). The locomotive is moving atVL = 30 km/h. The engineer of the passenger train immediately applies the brakes. Assume that an x axis extends in the direction ofmotion. What must be the constant acceleration along that axis if a collision is to be just avoided?High-speedtrainLocomotiveNumberUnits

Given data, Passenger train speed, vp = 160 km/h = 160 X 1000 m3600 s = 44.44 m/s…

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