Average speed = (distance covered) / (time to cover the distance)
Tissa covered 60 meters in 10 seconds. Her average speed was
(60 m) / (10 sec) = 6 m/s.
That's the slope of the dotted line.
Lilly covered 60 meters in 8 seconds. Her average speed was
(60 m) / (8 sec) = 7.5 m/s .
That's the slope of the solid line.
Lilly covered the same distance in less time, and both girls
arrived at the finish line together. Technically, in science talk,
we would say that Lilly ran "faster", and her average speed
was "greater".
We can detect that by looking at the graph, because Lilly's line
has the characteristic of being "steeper", and we know that the
slope of the line on a distance/time graph is "speed".
Answer:
The beam of light is moving at the peed of:
km/min
Given:
Distance from the isalnd, d = 3 km
No. of revolutions per minute, n = 4
Solution:
Angular velocity,
(1)
Now, in the right angle in the given fig.:

Now, differentiating both the sides w.r.t t:

Applying chain rule:


Now, using
and y = 1 in the above eqn, we get:

Also, using eqn (1),


Answer:
1.41 m/s^2
Explanation:
First of all, let's convert the two speeds from km/h to m/s:


Now we find the centripetal acceleration which is given by

where
v = 12.8 m/s is the speed
r = 140 m is the radius of the curve
Substituting values, we find

we also have a tangential acceleration, which is given by

where
t = 17.0 s
Substituting values,

The two components of the acceleration are perpendicular to each other, so we can find the resultant acceleration by using Pythagorean theorem:
