College Physics with MasteringPhysics 7th Edition by Jerry Wilson,Anthony Buffa,Bo Lou

Exercise 94

At the end of most landing runways in airports, an extension of the runway is constructed using a special substance called formcrete. Formcrete can support the weight of cars, but crumbles under the weight of airplanes to slow them down if they run off the end of a runway. If a plane of mass 2.00 × 10 5 kg is to stop from a speed of 25.0 m/s on a 100-m-long stretch of formcrete, what is the average force exerted on the plane by the formcrete