BIO Surviving a Large Deceleration On July 13, 1977, while on a test drive at Britain’s Silverstone racetrack, the throttle on David Purley’s car stuck wide open The resulting crash subjected Purley to the greatest “g-force” ever survived by a human—he decelerated from 173 km/h to zero in a distance of only about 0 66 m Calculate the magnitude of the acceleration experienced by Purley (assuming it to be constant), and express your answer in units of the acceleration of gravity g = 9.81 m/s2.
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