A cockroach is running across the floor at a velocity of 1.5 cm/s trying to find some Takis (that a physics student spilled). All of a sudden it sees a student coming to step on it so it stops. This all occurred in 0.5 seconds. What was the cockroach’s rate of acceleration

A cockroach is running across the floor at a velocity of 1.5 cm/s trying to find some Takis (that a physics student spilled). All of a sudden it sees a student coming to step on it so it stops. This all occurred in 0.5 seconds. What was the cockroach’s rate of acceleration

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