A hockey player is standing on his skates on a frozen pond when an opposing player, moving with a uniform speed of 2.0 m/s, skates by with the puck. After 1.20 s, the first player makes up his mind to chase his opponent. If he accelerates uniformly at 0.42 m/s², determine each of the following. (a) How long does it take him to catch his opponent? (Assume the player with the puck remains in motion at constant speed.) (b) How far has he traveled in that time? m

A hockey player is standing on his skates on a frozen pond when an opposing player, moving with a uniform speed of 2.0 m/s, skates by with the puck. After 1.20 s, the first player makes up his mind to chase his opponent. If he accelerates uniformly at 0.42 m/s2, determine each of the following. (a) How long does it take him to catch his opponent? (Assume the player with the puck remains in motion at constant speed.) (b) How far has he traveled in that time?

A jet plane comes in for a landing with a speed of 120 m/s. The length of the runway is 500 m. From the instant the plane touches the runway,          What is the time interval needed to come to rest (in seconds)?

Initially at rest, John catches a football at the 20 yard line, and immediately begins running forward with an acceleration of 2.3 m/s/s. At the instant John caught the ball, Bill (a player on the other team) happens to be 18.9 m away and he is running directly toward John at a constant 5.7 m/s. If the players run directly toward each other, then how far from the 20 yard line will Bill tackle John?

Rickey Henderson, baseball's record holder for stolen bases, approaches third base. He dives head first, hitting the ground at 6.89 m/s and reaching the base at 5.8 m/s, accelerating at -5.22 m/s/s. Determine the distance Rickey slides across the ground before touching the base.

In a slap shot, a hockey player accelerates the puck from a velocity of 7.5 m/s to 41 m/s in one direction.  If this shot takes 3.12 × 10-2 s, calculate the distance, in meters, over which the puck accelerates. d =

Two people each kick identical balls at the same angle. Person A kicks it at three times the speed of person B. How many times higher does A's ball go than B's?

Solve the following problem by using a reference frame attached to the motorist. A motorist drives along a straight road at a constant speed of 15.0 m/s. Just as she passes a parked motorcycle police officer, the officer starts to accelerate at 2.00 m/s^2 to overtake her. Assuming that the officer maintains this acceleration, a) determine the time interval required for the police officer to reach the motorist. Find b) the speed and c) the total displacement of the officer as he overtakes the motorist.

At the beginning of a basketball game, a referee tosses the ball straight up with a speed of 4.92 m/s. A player cannot touch the ball until after it reaches its maximum height and begins to fall down. What is the minimum time that a player must wait before touching the ball?

Two stones are thrown vertically up with the initial velocity v0, second stone with a time delay t0 with respect to the first one. At which time after the beginning of the motion the two stones will collide? Is this scenario possible for any v0 and t0? What are the limitations?