Question

What is the deceleration of a bicycle that goes from 40m/s to 20m/s in 5 seconds

Answer 1

Answer:

$-4 m/s^2$

Explanation:

The acceleration of the bycicle is given by:

$a=\frac{v-u}{t}$

where

v = 20 m/s is the final velocity of the bike

u = 40 m/s is the initial velocity

t = 5 s is the time interval

Substituting numbers, we find

$a=\frac{20 m/s-40 m/s}{5s}=-4 m/s^2$

and the acceleration is negative, which means that the bycicle is slowing down.