Question

A car is travelling west at 22.2 m/s when it accelerated for 0.80 s to the west at 2.68 m/s2. Calculate the car's final velocity. Show all your work.

Answer 1

24.34 m/s

Step-by-step explanation:

recall that one of the equations of motions takes the form:

v = u + at

where,

v = final velocity

u = initial velocity (given as 22.2 m/s)

a = acceleration (given as 2.68m/s²)

t = time elapsed during acceleration (given as 0.80s)

since we are told that the the acceleration is in the direction of the intial velocity, we can simply substitute the known values into the equation above:

v = u + at

v = 22.2 + (2.68) (0.8)

v = 24.34 m/s