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If im driving during winter...

Hades
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and i hit a sheet of ice at 50 miles an hour, will my car accelerate once gliding along the ice?

depends if you hit the gas or the breaks or coast.

 

also depends on whether your on a slope.

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lets say i can see the ice coming so once i know my front wheels are on the ice(assuming the car is front wheel drive) I let off the gas. no slope, flat ground.

lets say i can see the ice coming so once i know my front wheels are on the ice(assuming the car is front wheel drive) I let off the gas. no slope, flat ground.

 

I'm going to say your car would not accelerate. The air resistance on the overall car far outways the removal any friction the tires may have had on the road. Just my guess.

 

Bettina

you slow down.

 

you no longer have any force contributing to your forward momentum. you do, however, have friction with the air and the ice.

Why would you think that you accelerate? Velocity is changed only by force, and every force acting on the car is slowing it down. The ice merely reduces one of those forces, the friction with the road.

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