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Hey, I've just found this forum and it looks like a great place for science-minded people.
I'm having trouble finding the velocity from a graph of acceleration as a function of position.
http://www.adam.com.au/shiloh/Graph.png
I've assumed that you can find the integral of each triangle and that this would be the velocity as a function of position. I used A = 0.5*x*a to find these areas. I calculated area 1 to be 2.925 m/s and area 2 to be -2.0475 m/s. I then summed the areas with the initial velocity given.
My final answer was 4.8775 m/s but when I try to submit this answer, its wrong. Could someone please point me in the right direction so I can solve this?
Thanks!
I'm having trouble finding the velocity from a graph of acceleration as a function of position.
Homework Statement
http://www.adam.com.au/shiloh/Graph.png
The Attempt at a Solution
I've assumed that you can find the integral of each triangle and that this would be the velocity as a function of position. I used A = 0.5*x*a to find these areas. I calculated area 1 to be 2.925 m/s and area 2 to be -2.0475 m/s. I then summed the areas with the initial velocity given.
My final answer was 4.8775 m/s but when I try to submit this answer, its wrong. Could someone please point me in the right direction so I can solve this?
Thanks!