College Physics (10th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 6P
|| A boulder starting from rest rolls down a hill in a straight line, which we shall call the x axis. A graph of its position x as a function of time t is shown in Figure 2.46. Find (a) the distance the boulder rolled between the end of the first second and the end of the third second and (b) the boulder’s average speed during (i) the first second, (ii) the second second, (iii) the third second, (iv) the fourth second, and (v) the first 4 seconds.
Figure 2.46
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