A sand-filled lane results in the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a moving vehicle. What length is necessary for such an arrester bed to entirely stop a passively moving object (e.g.a ball)? What parameters does the length depend on?

Authors: Samuel Byland, Nikita Chernikov, Leszek Gladczuk, Artyom Golomolzin, Teck Seng Koh, Paul Lee, Ilya Martchenko, Luc Mazereeuw, Florian Ostermaier, Kerry Parker, Oksana Pshenichko, Andrey Shchetnikov, Nicholas Wong, Kathryn Zealand

被沙子覆盖的车道会导致行驶车辆的动能损耗。如果要使一个被动移动的物体（例如一个球）完全停止，这样的沙地需要多长。探究沙池长度取决于哪些参数。