A car is traveling at a constant speed of 12 m/s. When the driver accelerates, the car reaches a speed of 26 m/s in 6 s. What is the average acceleration of the car?
1 Answer
May 17, 2016
Explanation:
So the suvat equations are needed here, or rather one in particular:
(Where
This can be rearranged (to get
Since
These are the equations of motion if you'd like to use them without further proof: (they only work for constant acceleration, variable acceleration needs calculus).