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jnimagine
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You drive at a constant speed of v1 toward the stopped dragster, not slowing down in the face of the imminent collision. The dragster driver sees you coming but waits until the last instant to put down the hammer, accelerating from the starting line at constant acceleration, a. Let the time at which the dragster starts to accelerate be t=0
and then I'm asked to calculate the velocity and the longest time that would take me to run into the back of the dragster after the dragster started accelerating...
um.. I'm not given any #s sooo i don't know what I'm supposed to do..
then I'm asked to calculate dragster's position at tmax, distance car travels until tmax, and starting position of the car...
How the heck do I answer these if there are no numbers given?!
but the third part then asks find numerical values for tmax and dstart... for values v1=60mph, a=50ms^2...
I am very confused...
please help me out here... what kind of answers do they want??
and then I'm asked to calculate the velocity and the longest time that would take me to run into the back of the dragster after the dragster started accelerating...
um.. I'm not given any #s sooo i don't know what I'm supposed to do..
then I'm asked to calculate dragster's position at tmax, distance car travels until tmax, and starting position of the car...
How the heck do I answer these if there are no numbers given?!
but the third part then asks find numerical values for tmax and dstart... for values v1=60mph, a=50ms^2...
I am very confused...
please help me out here... what kind of answers do they want??