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onetroubledguy
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Ok here's the graph:
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We are given that the particle starts from rest at the initial position 0m with the initial velocity 0m/s. I need to find what the position of the particle is at t=5s.
Since acceleration is changing here, I didn't know what to do so I broke the problem up. First, I wanted to find the position at t=3s. I used the equation
x = x0 + v0t + 1/2at^2 where x0 = 0m, v0 = 0m/s, a = 1m/s^2, and t = 3s.
I came up with 4.5m.
Next, I did the same thing for the lower part; I used the same equation but with x0 = 4.5m, v0 = 3m/s, a = -2m/s^2, and t = 2s. I came up with 6.5m and added it to first distance (4.5m) to get 11m.
Obviously this is wrong. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated. Thank you.
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8762/acvt9nz.jpg [Broken]
We are given that the particle starts from rest at the initial position 0m with the initial velocity 0m/s. I need to find what the position of the particle is at t=5s.
Since acceleration is changing here, I didn't know what to do so I broke the problem up. First, I wanted to find the position at t=3s. I used the equation
x = x0 + v0t + 1/2at^2 where x0 = 0m, v0 = 0m/s, a = 1m/s^2, and t = 3s.
I came up with 4.5m.
Next, I did the same thing for the lower part; I used the same equation but with x0 = 4.5m, v0 = 3m/s, a = -2m/s^2, and t = 2s. I came up with 6.5m and added it to first distance (4.5m) to get 11m.
Obviously this is wrong. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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