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In 1970, Don “Big Daddy” Garlits set what was then the world record for drag racing. He started at rest and accelerated at 16.5 m/s2 (about
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In 1970, Don “Big Daddy” Garlits set what was then the world record for drag racing. He started at rest and accelerated at 16.5 m/s2 (about 1.68 times the free-fall acceleration) for 6.5 s. What was Garlits’s final speed? *
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Answer:
107.3 m/s
Explanation:
The motion of Garlit is a uniformly accelerated motion (=constant acceleration), therefore we can use the following suvat equation:
where
u is the initial velocity
v is the final velocity
a is the acceleration
t is the time
In this problem, we have:
u = 0 (Garlit starts from rest)
Therefore, the final velocity after t = 6.5 s is: