Car A is traveling at a location where the speed limit is 100 km/h. The police officer in car P observes this speed via radar. The driver of car A is traveling at va = 125 km/h as it passes P, but over the next 5.5 seconds, the car uniformly decelerates to the speed limit of 100 km/h, and after that the speed limit is maintained. At the moment when A passes P, the police car begins to accelerate at the constant rate of 5.0 m/s? until a speed of 156 km/h is achieved, and that speed is then maintained. Determine the distance s required for the police officer to overtake car A.

Car A is traveling at a location where the speed limit is 100 km/h. The police officer in car P observes this speed via radar. The driver of car A is traveling at va = 125 km/h as it passes P, but over the next 5.5 seconds, the car uniformly decelerates to the speed limit of 100 km/h, and after that the speed limit is maintained. At the moment when A passes P, the police car begins to accelerate at the constant rate of 5.0 m/s? until a speed of 156 km/h is achieved, and that speed is then maintained. Determine the distance s required for the police officer to overtake car A.

College Physics

11th Edition

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Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

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