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Homework Statement At the instant the traffic light turns green, an automobile starts with a constant acceleration a of 2.2 m/s2. At the same instant a truck, traveling with a constant speed of 8.6 m/s, overtakes and passes the automobile. (a) How far beyond the traffic signal will the...

But I think it is a little more complicated then that. The bird keeps flying back from train to train until the trains finally meet.

They are headed at each other on the same track. Of course there displacement will be different since one will be negative.

Homework Statement Two trains, each having a speed of 25 km/h, are headed at each other on the same straight track. A bird that can fly 60 km/h flies off the front of one train when they are 57 km apart and heads directly for the other train. On reaching the other train it flies directly back...