A distracted driver in a residential neighborhood is travelling at 25 miles per hour. The driver takes what they believe to be a brief 1 second look at a text that they have just received on a cell phone. In just one second, how far ( in feet) will the car travel if the driver fails to hit the breaks when a child and dog dart in front of the car.

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Q: Nerve impulses in a human body travel at a speed of about 100 m/s. Suppose a man accidentally stubs…

A: Given that: Speed of the nerve impulse in human body: v= 100 m/s Height of the man, d=1.70 m…

Q: A runner is moving with a speed of 2.68[m/s]. How long will it take the runner to complete a 5.0[km]…

A: The expression for find time taken by the runner to complete the race is t=dv

Q: While traveling at 89.52 km/h, a driver drops her cell phone on the floor of the car.  She reaches…

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Q: A dog slips out of its collar while going for a walk and runs away at full speed.  By the time the…

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Q: A car travels up a hill at a constant speed of 10.0m/s and goes down through the same path at a…

A: Given data:  Speed when car travels up a hill (V1) = 10.0 m/s Speed when car travels down the hill…

Q: The CN Tower, located in Toronto, Ontario, has a recorded height of 0.553 km. Refer to the…

A: Given data: Height of tower (h) = 0.553 km Initial velocity (u) = 0 m/s Time (t) = 3.00 s Required:…

Q: A huge wooden block accidentally falls from rest from the ledge of a 48-meter - high building. When…

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Q: A swimmer who can consistently keep the same pace to cover 50 meters in 7.71 seconds sets out to…

A: The height h=50m  Time t=7.71s  To find the actual speed of the swimmer

Q: You are arguing over a cellponone while trailing an unmarked police car by 27 m. Both your car and…

A: Initial speed = 105 kmhrOriginal distance between your car and police car = 27 m acceleration of…

Q: While driving south on hwy 400, Jim gets stuck travelling at 1.9 m/s behind a slow truck. He finally…

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Q: Nerve impulses in a human body travel at a speed of about 100 m/s. Suppose a man accidentally stubs…

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Q: In the human nervous system, signals are transmitted along neurons as action potentials that travel…

A: Length of neuron (L) = 1 m Width of synapse = 102 nm Time taken to cross each synapse = 0.4 ms Speed…

Q: A thief is trying to escape from a parking garage after completing a robbery, and the thief’s car is…

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Q: You and a friend are doing physics experiments by launching rocks into the air with a sling shot.…

A: We have given that, the time taken by rocket to cover window's height is t =0.15 s. The distance…

Q: In this exercise, an unmanned paper aircraft is sent straight down from the top of an office…

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Q: A Ford passes a Toyota on the road (both vehicles are traveling in the same direction). The Ford…

A: Answer Ford speed = 35.4 m/s Toyota speed = 12.2 m/s Distance = 114.8 m

Q: Richard is driving home to visit his parents. 125 mi of the trip are on the interstate highway where…

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Q: Pedro is driving a motorcycle along Espana boulevard. His position X (in meters) at any given time t…

A: Pedro's position is given by, xt=1.124t2+6.022 Pedro's initial position will be when t=0.…

Q: A thief is trying to escape from a parking garage after completing a robbery, and the thief’s car is…

A: Givenspeed of car (v)=11 m/sThief at a distance from door when a police flips switch (L)=14…

Q: Nerve impulses in the human body travel at a speed of about 100 m/s. A 2.0 m tall man accidentally…

A: Given: The velocity of nerve impulse (v) = 100 m/s. Height of man (h) = 2.0 m.

Q: The bacterium Escherichia coli (or E. coli) is a single-celled organism that lives in the gut of…

A: Given,             Zig-Zag constant speed, v = 20 μm/s             Other data in the graph

Q: A Ford passes a Toyota on the road (both vehicles are traveling in the same direction). The Ford…

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Q: He spots a juicy one in the grass and takes off from our porch at 5.22 m/s. When he reaches the…

A: The speed of Boomer v =5.22 m/s The distance moved by Boomer d=8.16 m The time taken by Boomer is…

Q: John walks 1.80 km north, then turns right and walks 1.20 km east. His speed is 1.40 m/s during the…

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Q: Amtrak's 20th-Century Limited is en route from Chicago to New York at 120 km/h when the engineer…

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Q: Nerve impulses in a human body travel at a speed of about 100 m/s. Suppose a person accidentally…

A: The distance travelled by the nerve impulse is d=1.6m

Q: A small rock is thrown vertically upward with a speed of 22.4 m/s from the edge of the roof of a…

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Q: The engineer of an intercity train observes a rock slide blocking the train's path 550 m ahead and…

A: Given data:  Distance (s) = 550 m Acceleration (a) = -1.7 m/s2 Final velocity (V) = 0 m/s Required:…

Q: The Space Shuttle travels at a speed of about 6.23 x 103 m/s. The blink of an astronaut's eye lasts…

A: We have,Speed of space shuttle, v=6.23×103 m/sTime taken to blink eyes of astronaut, t=117 msLength…

Q: George, the absent-minded professor, drives his car 5.0 miles due east along a straight road to the…

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Q: While driving at 45.0 mi/hr (20.1 m/s) on a straight portion of Route 9 West, Randi notices that the…

A: initial velocity = V0=  20.1m/s final velocity = V = 0 m/s displacement = S= 60 m acceleration = a =…

Q: car was traveling at 33.0 m/s on a poorly lit country road.  The driver started to brake 0.35…

A: The distance travelled by the car is, d=vt=33 m/s0.35 s=11.55 m The distance between the bridge and…

Q: At 5:11 p.m. in the highway and at the height of a town, a police patrol was traveling at a speed of…

A: (a)   Consider the time taken by police petrol to reach the citizen after the reaction time be t.…

Q: An express train passes through a station. It enters with an initial velocity of 22.0 m/s and…

A: We have to find the velocity of the train when nose leaves the station. Given that, Initial velocity…

Q: A bus initially at a bus stop accelerates continuously for a kilometer, taking a minute and a half.…

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Q: A tourist being chased by an angry bear is running in a straight line toward his car at a speed of…

A: Motion is not absolute but relative. We are given the speed of bear and the tourist. We are also…

Distance and Speed

The speed, distance and time relation forms the basis of study of motion. You will need these concepts in the study of Mechanics. This concept is applicable for students who are studying the following courses –