Extended Response
3.1 Acceleration
A car accelerates from rest at a stop sign at a rate of 3.0 m/s2 to a speed of 21.0 m/s, and then immediately begins to decelerate to a stop at the next stop sign at a rate of 4.0 m/s2. How long did it take the car to travel from the first stop sign to the second stop sign? Show your work.
- 1.7 seconds
- 5.3 seconds
- 7.0 seconds
- 12 seconds
3.2 Representing Acceleration with Equations and Graphs
True or False: Consider an object that starts from rest and moves with constant acceleration. The plot of displacement versus time for such motion is a curved line while the plot of displacement versus time squared is a straight line.
- True
- False