Physics of Everyday Phenomena
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 22CQ
A car moves along a straight line so that its position (distance from some starting point) varies with time as described by the graph shown here.
- a. Does the car ever go backward? Explain.
- b. Is the instantaneous velocity at point A greater or less than that at point B? Explain.
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