A student is bicycling north along Main Street to school. Another student is timing the bicycling student in order to determine
1 answer:
The average velocity is -4.17 m/s
Explanation:
The average velocity of a body is given by:
where
d is the displacement of the body
t is the time elapsed
For the student in this problem, we have:
Initial position:
Final position:
So the displacement is
The time elapsed is
t = 60 s
Therefore, the average velocity is
Where the negative sign means the student is moving towards the origin.
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Answer:
Answer D : about 1067 meters
Explanation:
There are two steps to this problem:
1) First find the time it takes the plane to stop using the equation for the acceleration:
Where Vf is the final velocity of the plane (in our case: zero )
Vi is the initial velocity of the plane (in our case: 80 m/s)
is the acceleration (in our case -3 m/s^2 - notice negative value because the velocity is decreasing)
with units corresponding to seconds given the quantities involved in the calculation.
2) Second knowing the time it took the plane to stop, now use that time in the equation for the distance traveled under accelerated motion:
Where the answer results in units of meters given the quantities used in the calculation.
We round this to 1067 meters