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    Finding the speed of a moving walkway.

    Thank you. Playing around with what you said helped me finally solve this problem. It seems so easy once you know how it's done.
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    Finding the speed of a moving walkway.

    Homework Statement While walking between gates at an airport, you notice a child running along a moving walkway. Estimating that the child runs at a constant speed of 2.9 m/s relative to the surface of the walkway, you decide to try to determine the speed of the walkway itself. You watch the...
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    Constant velocity object catching up to an accelerating object

    I'm still having trouble. I eliminate x by setting the equations equal to each other: v*t = (1/2)*0.41*t2. Then I solve for V by dividing both sides by t, ending up with v = \frac{(1/2)*0.41*t^{2}}{t} The t on the bottom cancels out 1 of the t's on the top. When I try to graph this...
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    Constant velocity object catching up to an accelerating object

    Homework Statement A train pulls away from a station with a constant acceleration of 0.41 m/s2. A passenger arrives at a point next to the track 6.4 s after the end of the train has passed the very same point. What is the slowest constant speed at which she can run and still catch the train...
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