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Originally Posted by beepbeep
If you know start speed, end speed and distance then acceleration can be presented this way:
As we already know the acceleration to be 1g = 9.78m/sek^2 and that start speed v0 = 0 then it's simply a matter of calculating v. |
I'm missing something here. In this equation does 's' represent time, in seconds? 'Cause it seems we have two unknowns to solve in that equation: terminal 'V' and 'S'. The instructor has given us a distance, a starting velocity (assumed to be 0) and a rate of acceleration. We have to solve whether V=c when that distance approaches, but we would first need to know the value of 'S' for this equation. What am I missing?