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Originally Posted by dentist90
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?
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nope, "s" is "stretch" (It's a "swedish" equation, "s" means "sträcka")...you use it when you know starting velocity, ending velocity and distance.
As you already know acceleration "a", starting velocity "v0" and distance "s" you need to break out "v".