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Physics, 07.10.2019 17:10 kyleigh85

Because of your technical background, you have been given a job as a student assistant in a university research laboratory that has been investigating possible accident avoidance systems for oil tankers. your group is concerned about oil spills in the north atlantic caused by a super tanker running into an iceberg. the group has been developing a new type of down-looking radar which can detect large icebergs. they are concerned about its rather short range of 2 miles. your research director has told you that the radar signal travels at the speed of light which is 186,000 miles per second but once the signal arrives back at the ship it takes the computer 5 minutes to process the signal. unfortunately, the super tankers are such huge ships that it takes a long time to turn them. your job is to determine how much time would be available to turn the tanker to avoid a collision once the tanker detects an iceberg. a typical sailing speed for super tankers during the winter on the north atlantic is about 15 miles per hour. assume that the tanker is heading directly at an iceberg that is drifting at 5 miles per hour in the same direction that the tanker is going.

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