Question

. A car going 50 m/s accelerates to pass a truck. Five seconds later the car is going 80m/s. Calculate the acceleration of the car.

Answer 1

6 mph/s


Calculating acceleration involves dividing velocity by time — or in terms of SI units, dividing the meter per second [m/s] by the second [s]. Dividing distance by time twice is the same as dividing distance by the square of time. Thus the SI unit of acceleration is the meter per second squared .