Thread: Need help with an acceleration question

A truck is moving at 35m/sec. How fast will the police have to accelerate to catch the truck in 1 min

Originally Posted by supersaiyan

A truck is moving at 35m/sec. How fast will the police have to accelerate to catch the truck in 1 min

assuming that the police car starts from rest as soon as the truck passes it ...



where = truck's constant speed

= time in seconds to catch the truck

= acceleration of the police car in m/s^2