I dont understand what uniform acceleration is?

[faisal]

hello fellow Physicians, My names Faisal and I'm a a physics student, I'm really stuck on a question & i could really use u'r help
Ok
An object with an initial speed of 3m/s begins to accelerate uniformly at 2m/s2. what will b its speed 5s later?

i don't understand what uniform acceleration is?
i really need to know the basics of physics before i can start anything advanced can u physicans recommend a good website?

 

[Alkatran]

hello fellow Physicians, My names Faisal and I'm a a physics student, I'm really stuck on a question & i could really use u'r help
Ok
An object with an initial speed of 3m/s begins to accelerate uniformly at 2m/s2. what will b its speed 5s later?

i don't understand what uniform acceleration is?
i really need to know the basics of physics before i can start anything advanced can u physicans recommend a good website?

First of all, write down what you knwo and what you don't:
d (distance) = ?
vi (starting speed) = 3 m/s
vf (final speed) = ?
a (acceleration) = 2 m/s^2
t (time) = 5 s

Now, there are about 5 formulas that relate those 5 values. I can't name them off, but look at it logically: the acceleration is change of speed per second. The change of speed PER SECOND IS TWO, and it lasts FIVE SECONDS. So if you are going 2 faster every second, for 5 seconds, and you start at 3... what do you do?

Still need more help?

 

[poolwin2001]

Velocity/speed is the rate of change of position.
Acceleration measures the rate of change of velocity.
Uniform acceleration ==>acceleration remains constant with time

For your Problem:
Remember these fudamental eqns:
<br /> (i)v=u + at <br />

<br /> (ii)v^2=u^2 + 2as <br />

<br /> (iii)s=ut+\frac{1}{2}at^2 <br />
Try to figure these out yourself
EDIT:where v is final velocity
u is initial velocity
a is acceleration
t is time taken
s is the displacement

 

[marlon]

Poolwin2001,

Do please give constructive answers. By just reciting formula's without defining what is what, you only make it more difficult.

regards
marlon

 

[humanino]

Welcome Faisal ! You should use the specific help forum next time.
Enjoy PF !

 

[faisal]

''An object with an initial speed of 3m/s begins to accelerate uniformly at 2m/s2. wh

i still don't understand the only equation which relates to this question
is accelertaion, this is what i originally worked out 2-3/5=0.68 the answer was obviously wrong.

 

[marlon]

Use v = v_0 + at

v : speed
v_0 initial speed
a : acceleration

so you have v = 3 + 2*5 = 13 m/s

 

[Nenad]

i still don't understand the only equation which relates to this question
is accelertaion, this is what i originally worked out 2-3/5=0.68 the answer was obviously wrong.

you have to understand what acceleration is first if you want to understand the problem properly. Dont worrry if you don't get it at first, a LOT of people do not get it until after they work with the concept for about a month. Uniform Acceleration is the rate of change in speed, this means that every time one second passes by, the speed changes uniformly by a margin, it either decreases by that speed or increases. In your case, every second, the speed of the object increases by 2m/s^2. You begin at 3m/s^2 and you travel for 5 seconds. If we break the calculation down we would see the separate speeds at each second:
V_i = 3m/s (no time has passed)
V_1 = 3m/s + 2m/s (1 second has passed)
V_2 = 3m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s (2 seconds have passed)
V_3 = 3m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s (3 seconds have passed)
V_4 = 3m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s (4 seconds have passed)
V_5 = 3m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s + 2m/s (5 seconds have passed)

as you can see, the general pattern for the speed after a time t and at constant acceleration a and an initial speed V_o is:
V = V_o + at

if you still don't understand, try looking up some acceleration problems and try doing them, doing practice probalems is the best way to learn.