In a college homecoming competition, eighteen students lift a sports car. While holding the car off of the ground, each student exerts an upward force of 400 newtons. What is the mass of the car in kilograms?

You are driving directly behind a pickup truck, going at the same speed as the truck. a crate falls from the bed of the truck to the road. (a) will your car hit the crate before the crate hits the road if you neither brake nor swerve? (b) during the fall, is the horizontal speed of the crate more than, less than, or the same as that of the truck?