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5) In your final attempt to be a physics dare devil, you wanted to see if you could run through aglass window on the third floor in order to jump down into the learning commons. It takes 3000Jof kinetic energy to break the glass. You (whose mass is still 54kg) are running at a speed of 2.0 m/s. You see Mr. Finlay at the other end of the hallway so you accelerate at a rate of 1.5 m/s2 for 5.0s. The entire time you run directly towards the window. When you smash into the class the collision is 90% efficient. Will you be able to break it and fall into the atrium, OR will you just hit the window and get a concussion without breaking the glass? Explain your thinking.

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