Pete roller skates with a constant speed of 8 miles per hour. How long will he take to travel a distance of 12 miles?
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Answer:
The displacement is zero miles
Explanation:
The displacement of an object that moves from point A to point B is defined as
Where d is the displacement of the object. The displacement does not depend on the trajectory of the object. It only depends on the linear distance between the end point and the starting point.
In this case we know that the person walks from home to work and then walks from work to home. Therefore, the total displacement is the linear distance between the point where its journey begins and the point where the route ends.
The tour begins on the front porch of your house and ends on the front porch of your house (when you return from work). If we call A to the front porch of the house then the displacement is:
The displacement is zero miles, since the person finishes the journey just where it started (front porch)
a) 10 m/s
b) 25 m
Explanation:
a)
The body is moving with a constant acceleration, therefore we can solve the problem by using the following suvat equation:
where
u is the initial velocity
v is the final velocity
a is the acceleration
t is the time
For the body in this problem:
u = 0 (the body starts from rest)
is the acceleration
t = 5 s is the time
So, the final velocity is
b)
In this second part, we want to calculate the distance travelled by the body.
We can do it by using another suvat equation:
where
u is the initial velocity
v is the final velocity
a is the acceleration
s is the distance travelled
Here we have
u = 0 (the body starts from rest)
is the acceleration
v = 10 m/s is the final velocity
Solving for s,