Starting from rest, a toy train on straight level tracks speeds up uniformly with an acceleration of 0.012 m/s2 for a distance of 2.1 m. For how many seconds was the toy train speeding up as it went this 2.1 m?

Starting from rest, a toy train on straight level tracks speeds up uniformly with an acceleration of 0.012 m/s2 for a distance of 2.1 m. For how many seconds was the toy train speeding up as it went this 2.1 m?

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