You are going on an out of town, and you are driving your car at 20m/s when you need to quickly reduce the car's speed to 15m/s to round a curve in a highway going to Jeju City. If the deceleration has a magnitude of 6m/s^2, how far does your car travel while reducing the speed? And what is the time needed to round the curve?

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Chapter4: Motion In Two Dimensions
Section4.5: Tangential And Radial Acceleration
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You are going on an out of town, and you are driving your  car at 20m/s when you need to quickly reduce the car's speed to 15m/s to round a curve in a highway going to Jeju City. If the deceleration has a magnitude of 6m/s^2, how far does your car travel while reducing the speed? And what is the time needed to round the curve?

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