16. A car travels at a constant velocity along a straight and banked road. The tires are perpendicular to the road. The maximum static friction force follows a normal distribution . The car and its passengers have a mass of . Find the probability that the car will slip. The coefficient of static friction is  between the car and road.  and  are independent.

Solution

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We construct the function

The probability that the car will slip is

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