1. Christina drives her Mustang along a straight road at a constant speed of 110 km/hr. She passes a parked motorcycle police officer, and five seconds later, the officer starts to accelerate at 3.50 m/s to catch her. Assuming the officer maintains this acceleration, determine the total time it takes the police officer to reach Christina from the time she passes her. At what distance from the original place Christina passes the police officer, does the officer catch Christina? Plot their displacement functions in a x-t plot together, labeling the time and displacement.

1. Christina drives her Mustang along a straight road at a constant speed of 110 km/hr. She passes a parked motorcycle police officer, and five seconds later, the officer starts to accelerate at 3.50 m/s to catch her. Assuming the officer maintains this acceleration, determine the total time it takes the police officer to reach Christina from the time she passes her. At what distance from the original place Christina passes the police officer, does the officer catch Christina? Plot their displacement functions in a x-t plot together, labeling the time and displacement.

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Author:Paul Peter Urone, Roger Hinrichs

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Chapter2: Kinematics

Section: Chapter Questions

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