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on a roller coaster ride at an amusement park, a car travels from 7.6 m/s to 56 m/s in 3 seconds. whats the cars acceleration?

a) no acceleration
b) 11 m/s^2
c) 235 m/s^2
d) 16 m/s^2

Respuesta :

Acceleration is defined as rate of change in velocity

So we can write its formula as

[tex]a = \frac{v_f - v_i}{t}[/tex]

here we know that

[tex]v_f[/tex] = final velocity = 56 m/s

[tex]v_i[/tex] = initial velocity = 7.6 m/s

t = time interval to change the velocity = 3 s

now we will plug in all values in the above equation

[tex]a = \frac{56 - 7.6}{3}[/tex]

[tex]a = \frac{48.4}{3}[/tex]

[tex]a = 16.13 m/s^2[/tex]

so here roller coaster will accelerate at rate of 16 m/s^2 and hence correct answer is "option d"