Bicycle Skid Distance with Speed · PhysicsBowl 2021 #24
Physics · mechanics
Problem
In a panic, you squeeze the brake handle on your bicycle, lock up the rear wheel, and skid a certain distance on a straight, level path before stopping. If you had been traveling twice as fast, what distance would you have skidded, under the same conditions?
A) You would have skidded 4 times farther.
B) You would have skidded twice as far.
C) You would have skidded 1.4 times farther.
D) You would have skidded 8 times farther.
E) It is impossible to tell from the information given.