Question

A monkey has a bit of a heavy for on the gas pedal. As soon as the light turns green the monkey pushes the gas pedal to the floor and accelerates from 0 mph to 60 mph (0 m/s - 28.82 m/s) in 4.2 seconds, calculate the cars acceleration.

Answer 1

Answer:

$s=6.86m/s^2$

Explanation:

Hello,

In this case, considering that the acceleration is computed as follows:

$a=\frac{v_{final}-v_{initial}}{t}$

Whereas the final velocity is 28.82 m/s, the initial one is 0 m/s and the time is 4.2 s. Thus, the acceleration turns out:

$a=\frac{28.82m/s-0m/s}{4.2s}\\ \\s=6.86m/s^2$

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