A passenger in a car starts a stopwatch when the car is travelling at

PHYSICS · Multi-part · CBSE · Physics · Motion in a Straight Line · Motion in a Straight Line

Problem

28.8 \text{ km hour}^{-1}

. The car accelerates with a constant acceleration of

2.0 \text{ ms}^{-2}

for the next 10 s. Calculate the: (a) speed of the car after 10 s of acceleration (give your answer in

\text{ms}^{-1}

) (b) distance that the car has travelled during the 10 s period (give your answer in m).