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In 1896 in Waco, Texas, William George Crush, owner of the K-T (or "Katy") Railroa...

In 1896 in Waco, Texas, William George Crush, owner of the K-T (or "Katy") Railroad, parked two locomotives at opposite ends of a 6.4 km long track, fired them up, tied their throttles open, and then allowed them to crash head-on at full speed in front of 30,000 spectators. Hundreds of people were hurt by flying debris; several were killed. Assuming that each locomotive weighed 1.2.106 N and its acceleration along the track was a constant 0.26 m/s2, what was the total kinetic energy of the two locomotives just before the collision?

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