A toy train rolling on a straight stretch of tracks, initially going 0.31 m/s slows uniformly to 0.14 m/s in 17 s.  It then speeds up with a constant acceleration of magnitude 0.068 m/s2 over a distance of 4.2 m. iii) What was the total time for all this (slowing down and then speeding up)?

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A toy train rolling on a straight stretch of tracks, initially going 0.31 m/s slows uniformly to 0.14 m/s in 17 s.  It then speeds up with a constant acceleration of magnitude 0.068 m/s2 over a distance of 4.2 m.

iii) What was the total time for all this (slowing down and then speeding up)? 

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