Question

According to the record books, Aleksander Zass (known as to his admirers as ”Samson”) would, when he wasn’t bending iron bars, catch a 104- lb (463 N) woman fired from a cannon at around 45 mi/hr. Assuming that Samson brought her to rest uniformly in a distance of 1.00 m, compute the force he exerted on the woman. As a guess, take her ”landing speed” to be 8.94 m/s.

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