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| Need help from math gurus!; Or really anyone who remembers HS math | |
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| TarynJ | Feb 17 2009, 12:16 PM Post #1 |
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I's driving me nuts, and I can't find what I need in google. And I can't remember basic HS physics/math. Question: Calculate the distance travelled, in meters, of a car that has gone from 0 km/o to 100 km/h in 10.8 seconds. Assume that the track is flat and there are no other factors (i.e. windspeed)... |
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| headlesshorseman | Feb 17 2009, 12:51 PM Post #2 |
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You're BANNED!
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THANK GOD I TEACH PRE-K...our math consists of M&M's and goldfish...SORRY Gold Sea Kittens... GOOD LUCK...I only went as high as Algebra II I can't wait to hear the answer... HH
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| zbar | Feb 17 2009, 01:13 PM Post #3 |
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It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure!
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See if this one helps, if my brain was not busy with a migrain I could probably help you better http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/761449.html |
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| TarynJ | Feb 17 2009, 01:14 PM Post #4 |
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Hmmm. I'm arguing a traffic ticket. Maybe if I counted it in MM's they'd just think I was nuts and tell me to go away?
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| Smiles | Feb 17 2009, 01:21 PM Post #5 |
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It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure!
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You should do a stokeometry equation buy converting the km into miles per hour and go from there... |
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| TarynJ | Feb 17 2009, 01:25 PM Post #6 |
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AHHHHH - That's where I was going wrong. Now the numbers make sense. Unfortunatly they don't help me... |
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| headlesshorseman | Feb 17 2009, 02:55 PM Post #7 |
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OK...SO SOMEONE WAS SPEEDING?????![]() HOLD ON TIGHT...and WATCH OUT IBEX is ON THE ROAD HH
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| Delia | Feb 17 2009, 05:11 PM Post #8 |
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I'm no math guru by a long shot (that's why I'm a lawyer!), but I have you going .3 km in 10.8 seconds. What I did was convert the hour to 3600 seconds and set up this basic proportional equation: 100/3600 = x/10.8. So x is (100 x 10.8)/3600, which equals .3 km. .3 km equals 300 meters . . . well, actually, it would be less than that, b/c you wouldn't be going 100 km/hour for that whole 10.8 seconds. Oh well . . . that's why I ain't no rocket scientist .
Edited by Delia, Feb 17 2009, 05:19 PM.
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| OTF | Feb 17 2009, 05:37 PM Post #9 |
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Delia, you lost me at .3 km........ Ibex, I'm not great at math and I know it's not nice to answer a question with a question, but the main concern here is: Was there a monkey on the hood of the car? That will have a significant bearing on the answer! P.S. I hope you successfully argue your way out of this ticket; if so, go buy a pound of M&M Peanuts and send me the bill!!! Better yet, get Delia to come out and handle this matter for you! (Now I'm in deep doo-doo!)
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| Brydelle Farm | Feb 17 2009, 07:21 PM Post #10 |
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Off visiting Candy Cave, be right back.
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OH, I love math but it has been a long time since I had to remember Newton's laws, etc...! I got 140m, after calculating an avg acceleration using a = (v2 - v1)/t and then using s (distance) = v1t + 1/2at2. Best wishes on getting out of the ticket...let me know if it works, I always need a plan B next time I get stopped. My client got me a cute bumper sticker this year, it says, "But officer, that wasn't a uturn, it was a rollback", she knows me too well!
Edited by Brydelle Farm, Feb 17 2009, 08:03 PM.
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| Crackerjack | Feb 17 2009, 07:40 PM Post #11 |
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We're on a bridge, Chaaaaaaaaarlie!
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There's some equation like distance = vsquared/2a where v is velocity and a is acceleration. Then you have to mess around with units and I haven't done physics in 15 years so I can't make heads nor tails of it!! |
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| glenhill | Feb 17 2009, 10:46 PM Post #12 |
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Is the meadow on fire?
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Yummmmm M&M's |
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| zbar | Feb 18 2009, 05:32 AM Post #13 |
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It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure!
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the link did not help? your same question is asked and solved............. |
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| Brydelle Farm | Feb 18 2009, 06:01 AM Post #14 |
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Off visiting Candy Cave, be right back.
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Yup, using that, you get 145m vs the 140m, b/c I calculated avg acceleration...:) |
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| TarynJ | Feb 18 2009, 09:54 AM Post #15 |
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Oh, the link helped me get the answer, it just wasn't an answer that was going to help me out at all! Basically last winter I was pulled over for doing a speed that under the conditions my car is incapable of doing. It was coming over the top of a hill and I think they clocked the guy who passed me (I turned on half way up the hill; if you have a running start it's pretty easy to be going that fast by the top), but I was easier to pull over. Off to argue the ticket today! I have the tech specs on my car, photographs of the hill, and a copy of the weather report (deep and snowy - I was in 4WD which makes acceleration even harder). There were no monkeys on the hood of the car, but given that I live in Lotus Land I'm sure that even if there were, the officer had seen stranger things. Wish me luck! Edited by TarynJ, Feb 18 2009, 09:56 AM.
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