Question

A motorcycle traveling along a straight road increases its speed from 34.9 ft/s to 45.8 ft/s in a distance of 194 feet. If the acceleration is constant, how many seconds of time elapses while the motorcycle moves this distance?

Answer 1

The time elapsed while the motorcycle moves the distance is 4.8sec.

Given quantities are,

• Initial velocity=34.9 ft/s
• final velocity=45.8 ft/s
• distance travelled by motorcycle=194 ft

Since the acceleration of motorcycle is constant, we can apply two of the three equations of motion for uniform acceleration here.

• $v=u+a*t$ -first eq of motion under uniform acceleration.

• $v^{2} =u^{2} +2as$ -third eq of motion under uniform acceleration.

Substituting the given values in third eq of motion, we get

⇒$(45.8)^{2} =(34.9)^{2} +2*194*a$

this gives, acceleration, a=2.267 ft/$s^{2}$ (...1)

Now by substituting value of acceleration obtained above along with the given data in first eq of motion, we get;

⇒ 45.8=34.9+ 2.26*t

⇒45.8 - 34.9 = 2.26*t

⇒t = 10.9/2.26

⇒t=4.8 sec

Therefore, 4.8 sec have elapsed when the motorcycle has covered distance of 194 ft along with the given set of initial and final velocity.

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