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for fun, people drive bumper cars designed to safely collide and bounce off each other.
two de head - on. each car is carrying one driver. during the ( eriences a greater acceleration than car b does.
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assu eacntal forces acting on the cars are those they exert on
the strength of the force from car a on car b is
the force from car b on car a.
the mass of car a’s driver is less than car b’s driver.
options: greater than, less than, equal to
To determine the relationship between the forces exerted by the two bumper cars on each other, we use Newton's Third Law of Motion, which states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This means that when two objects interact, the force exerted by object A on object B is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force exerted by object B on object A. In the case of the bumper cars colliding, the force from car A on car B and the force from car B on car A are an action - reaction pair. So, according to Newton's Third Law, these two forces must be equal in strength.
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