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AP Physics C: Mechanics
4.2 Change in Momentum and Impulse
4.1 Linear Momentum
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A horizontal track is shown as a solid line. Two identical rectangular carts, labeled Cart 1 and Cart 2, sit on the surface, one vertically above the other in separate horizontal lanes. For Cart 1, a horizontal arrow labeled v_0 points to the right from the center of the cart, and a horizontal arrow labeled F(t) points to the right from its front edge. For Cart 2, a horizontal arrow labeled 3v_0 points to the right from the center of the cart, and a horizontal arrow labeled F(t) of the same length as on Cart 1 points to the right from its front edge. A horizontal coordinate axis below shows +x pointing to the right. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Two carts on a frictionless surface subjected to identical time-dependent forces.
Two carts, Cart 1 and Cart 2, each of mass \(m\), move in the positive \(x\)-direction along a horizontal frictionless track with initial speeds \(v_0\) and \(3v_0\), respectively. Starting at time \(t = 0\), both carts are subjected to the same time-dependent horizontal force \(F(t) = c t\) in the positive \(x\)-direction until time \(t = T\), where \(c = \dfrac{4mv_0}{T^2}\). What is the ratio \(\dfrac{\Delta K_1}{\Delta K_2}\) of the change in kinetic energy of Cart 1 to the change in kinetic energy of Cart 2 over this time interval?

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