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    Calculating Minimum Distance for Safe Overtaking in a Kinematics Problem

    I'll get that to you tomorrow once I see him again.
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    Calculating Minimum Distance for Safe Overtaking in a Kinematics Problem

    Still got the question wrong somehow. My classmates are also having trouble getting the right answer, so my teacher might have made a mistake. Thank you for clarifying how to do this problem, though. It was really helpful :)
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    Calculating Minimum Distance for Safe Overtaking in a Kinematics Problem

    Sorry, I assumed that the acceleration was positive since I thought that that would be the correct perspective. So I guess the correct distance would be 125.8 m
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    Calculating Minimum Distance for Safe Overtaking in a Kinematics Problem

    Should take her approximately 5.72 seconds to match the camper's speed.
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    Calculating Minimum Distance for Safe Overtaking in a Kinematics Problem

    All we were given were the problem and the equations. He never specified anything else.
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    Calculating Minimum Distance for Safe Overtaking in a Kinematics Problem

    I believe that it's saying that the woman gets as close to the truck as she can without "touching" it, if that makes sense.
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    Calculating Minimum Distance for Safe Overtaking in a Kinematics Problem

    Homework Statement Suppose that a woman driving a Mercedes zooms out of a darkened tunnel at 30.3 m/s. She is momentarily blinded by the sunshine. When she recovers, she sees that she is fast overtaking a camper ahead in her lane moving at the slower speed of 13.7 m/s. She hits the brakes as...
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