course Phy 201 ??x??????|P??Student Name: assignment #003
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12:03:49 `q001. Note that there are 11 questions in this assignment. vAve = `ds / `dt, which is the definition of average velocity and which fits well with our intuition about this concept. If displacement `ds is measured in meters and the time interval `dt is measured in seconds, in what units will vAve be obtained?
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RESPONSE --> Average velocity will be measured in meters/second.
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12:04:09 vAve = `ds / `dt. The units of `ds are cm and the units of `dt are sec, so the units of `ds / `dt must be cm / sec. Thus vAve is in cm/s.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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12:05:30 `q002. If the definition equation vAve = `ds / `dt is to be solved for `ds we multiply both sides of the equation by `dt to obtain `ds = vAve * `dt. If vAve is measured in cm / sec and `dt in sec, then in what units must `ds be measured?
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RESPONSE --> Delta s is measured in meters.
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12:05:42 Since vAve is in cm/sec and `dt in sec, `ds = vAve * `dt must be in units of cm / sec * sec = cm.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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12:07:38 `q003. Explain the algebra of multiplying the unit cm / sec by the unit sec.
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RESPONSE --> If you multiply cm/sec by sec, the result is centimeters per second per second. You are saying that you are traveling at a certain velocity over a period of time.
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12:09:01 When we multiply cm/sec by sec we are multiplying the fractions cm / sec and sec / 1. When we multiply fractions we will multiply numerators and denominators. We obtain cm * sec / ( sec * 1). This can be rearranged as (sec / sec) * (cm / 1), which is the same as 1 * cm / 1. Since multiplication or division by 1 doesn't change a quantity, this is just equal to cm.
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RESPONSE --> I forgot to simplify to just centimeters.
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13:36:52 `q004. If the definition vAve = `ds / `dt is to be solved for `dt we multiply both sides of the equation by `dt to obtain vAve * `dt = `ds, then divide both sides by vAve to get `dt = `ds / vAve. If vAve is measured in km / sec and `ds in km, then in what units must `dt be measured?
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RESPONSE --> Delta t is measured in seconds.
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13:37:03 Since `dt = `ds / vAve and `ds is in km and vAve in km/sec, `ds / vAve will be in km / (km / sec) = seconds.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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13:37:59 `q005. Explain the algebra of dividing the unit km / sec into the unit km.
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RESPONSE --> When you divide km/sec by km, the km cancel out. This gives you a result of just seconds.
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13:38:08 The division is km / (km / sec). Since division by a fraction is multiplication by the reciprocal of the fraction, we have km * (sec / km). This is equivalent to multiplication of fractions (km / 1) * (sec / km). Multiplying numerators and denominators we get (km * sec) / (1 * km), which can be rearranged to give us (km / km) * (sec / 1), or 1 * sec / 1, or just sec.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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13:41:55 `q006. If an object moves from position s = 4 meters to position s = 10 meters between clock times t = 2 seconds and t = 5 seconds, then at what average rate is the position of the object changing (i.e., what is the average velocity of the object) during this time interval? What is the change `ds in position, what is the change `dt in clock time, and how do we combine these quantities to obtain the average velocity?
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RESPONSE --> 10meters-4meters=6meters 5seconds-2seconds=3seconds 6meters/3seconds=2meters/second
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13:42:13 We see that the changes in position and clock time our `ds = 10 meters - 4 meters = 6 meters and `dt = 5 seconds - 2 seconds = 3 seconds. We see also that the average velocity is vAve = `ds / `dt = 6 meters / (3 seconds) = 2 meters / second. Comment on any discrepancy between this reasoning and your reasoning.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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13:44:52 `q007. Symbolize this process: If an object moves from position s = s1 to position s = s2 between clock times t = t1 and t = t2, when what expression represents the change `ds in position and what expression represents the change `dt in the clock time?
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RESPONSE --> s2-s1=1 is the delta s t2-t1=1 is the delta t
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13:46:45 We see that the change in position is `ds = s2 - s1, obtained as usual by subtracting the first position from the second. Similarly the change in clock time is `dt = t2 - t1. What expression therefore symbolizes the average velocity between the two clock times.
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RESPONSE --> vAve=ds/dt
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14:01:32 `q008. On a graph of position s vs. clock time t we see that the first position s = 4 meters occurs at clock time t = 2 seconds, which corresponds to the point (2 sec, 4 meters) on the graph, while the second position s = 10 meters occurs at clock time t = 5 seconds and therefore corresponds to the point (5 sec, 10 meters). If a right triangle is drawn between these points on the graph, with the sides of the triangle parallel to the s and t axes, the rise of the triangle is the quantity represented by its vertical side and the run is the quantity represented by its horizontal side. This slope of the triangle is defined as the ratio rise / run. What is the rise of the triangle (i.e., the length of the vertical side) and what quantity does the rise represent? What is the run of the triangle and what does it represent?
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RESPONSE --> The rise of the triangle is represented by the meters. The run of the triangle is represented by the seconds. If you divide the rise by the run you obtain the slope.
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14:05:47 The rise of the triangle represents the change in the position coordinate, which from the first point to the second is 10 m - 4 m = 6 m. The run of the triangle represents the change in the clock time coordinate, which is 5 s - 2 s = 3 s.
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RESPONSE --> I didn't calculate the results. I tried to explain how to do it.
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14:07:16 `q009. What is the slope of this triangle and what does it represent?
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RESPONSE --> The slope is 2 meters/second and represents the average velocity.
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14:07:17 `q009. What is the slope of this triangle and what does it represent?
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14:07:22 The slope of this graph is 6 meters / 3 seconds = 2 meters / second.
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14:07:26 The slope of this graph is 6 meters / 3 seconds = 2 meters / second.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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14:11:13 `q010. In what sense does the slope of any graph of position vs. clock time represent the velocity of the object? For example, why does a greater slope imply greater velocity?
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RESPONSE --> A greater slope would give you a greater meters/second. The velocity would have to be larger.
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14:11:24 Since the rise between two points on a graph of velocity vs. clock time represents the change in `ds position, and since the run represents the change `dt clock time, the slope represents rise / run, or change in position /change in clock time, or `ds / `dt. This is the definition of average velocity.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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14:13:38 `q011. As a car rolls from rest down a hill, its velocity increases. Describe a graph of the position of the car vs. clock time. If you have not already done so, tell whether the graph is increasing at an increasing rate, increasing at a decreasing rate, decreasing at an increasing rate, decreasing at a decreasing rate, increasing at a constant rate or decreasing at a constant rate. Is the slope of your graph increasing or decreasing? How does the behavior of the slope of your graph indicate the condition of the problem, namely that the velocity is increasing?
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RESPONSE --> As the clock time increases the velocity will also increase. The graph would be increasing at an increasing rate. The slope would be increasing.
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14:13:50 The graph should have been increasing, since the position of the car increases with time (the car gets further and further from its starting point). The slope of the graph should have been increasing, since it is the slope of the graph that indicates velocity. An increasing graph within increasing slope is said to be increasing at an increasing rate.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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??b??????¤?Q??Student Name: assignment #004
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21:21:40 query Note that there are 10 questions in this assignment. At a certain instant the speedometer of a car reads 5 meters / second (of course cars in this country generally read speeds in miles per hour and km per hour, not meters / sec; but they could easily have their faces re-painted to read in meters/second, and we assume that this speedometer has been similarly altered). Exactly 4 seconds later the speedometer reads 25 meters/second (that, incidentally, indicates very good acceleration, as you will understand later). At what average rate is the speed of the car changing with respect to clock time?
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RESPONSE --> 25 meters/second - 5 meters/second = 20meters/second 20meters/second / 4 seconds= 5 meters/second/second
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21:22:01 The rate of change of the speed with respect clock time is equal to the change in the speed divided by the change in the clock time. So we must ask, what is the change in the speed, what is the change in the clock time and what therefore is the rate at which the speed is changing with respect to clock time? The change in speed from 5 meters/second to 25 meters/second is 20 meters/second. This occurs in a time interval lasting 4 seconds. The average rate of change of the speed is therefore (20 meters/second)/(4 seconds) = 5 meters / second / second. This means that on the average, per second, the speed changes by 5 meters/second.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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21:25:00 `q002. Explain in commonsense terms of the significance for an automobile of the rate at which its velocity changes. Do you think that a car with a more powerful engine would be capable of a greater rate of velocity change?
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RESPONSE --> Velocity is the speed at which an object travels with respect to time. Without velocity, we would not know how fast we were traveling. A car with a more powerful engine would be capable, if there weren't speed limits, of a higher velocity.
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21:25:25 A car whose velocity changes more rapidly will attain a given speed in a shorter time, and will be able to 'pull away from' a car which is capable of only a lesser rate of change in velocity. A more powerful engine, all other factors (e.g., weight and gearing) being equal, would be capable of a greater change in velocity in a given time interval.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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21:28:50 `q003. Explain how we obtain the units meters / second / second in our calculation of the rate of change of the car's speed.
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RESPONSE --> We must first know how fast an object travels. If we figure out that an object travels 5 meters/second, then how far would it travel in 10 seconds? That is where the second second comes in. It is to tell us how fast an object travels in a given time.
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21:29:01 When we divide the change in velocity, expressed in meters/second, by the duration of the time interval in seconds, we get units of (meters / second) / second, often written meters / second / second.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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21:30:16 `q004. The unit (meters / second) / second is actually a complex fraction, having a numerator which is itself a fraction. Such a fraction can be simplified by multiplying the numerator by the reciprocal of the denominator. We thus get (meters / second) * (1/ second). What do we get when we multiply these two fractions?
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RESPONSE --> We would end up with meters.
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21:31:02 Multiplying the numerators we get meters * 1; multiplying the denominators we get second * second, which is second^2. Our result is therefore meters * 1 / second^2, or just meters / second^2. If appropriate you may at this point comment on your understanding of the units of the rate of change of velocity.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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21:35:16 `q004. If the velocity of an object changes from 10 m/s to -5 m/s during a time interval of 5 seconds, then at what average rate is the velocity changing?
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RESPONSE --> 10m/s - 5m/s = 5m/s 5m/s / 5 seconds = 1m/s
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21:36:19 We see that the velocity changes from 10 meters/second to -5 meters/second, a change of -15 meters / second, during a five-second time interval. A change of -15 m/s during a 5 s time interval implies an average rate of -15 m/s / (5 s) = -3 (m/s)/ s = -3 m/s^2. This is the same as (-3 m/s) / s, as we saw above. So the velocity is changing by -3 m/s every second.
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RESPONSE --> I missed the negative sign on the ending rate.
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21:40:06 `q005. You should have noted that velocity can be positive or negative, as can the change in velocity or the rate at which velocity changes. The average rate at which a quantity changes with respect to time over a given time interval is equal to the change in the quantity divided by the duration of the time interval. In this case we are calculating the average rate at which the velocity changes. If v represents velocity then we we use `dv to represent the change in velocity and `dt to represent the duration of the time interval. What expression do we therefore use to express the average rate at which the velocity changes?
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RESPONSE --> vAve = ds/dt dv = v0 - vf
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21:40:34 The average rate would be expressed by [ave rate of velocity change with respect to clock time] = `dv / `dt. The expression [ave rate of velocity change with respect to clock time] is pretty cumbersome so we give it a name. The name we give it is 'average acceleration', abbreviated by the letter aAve. Using a to represent acceleration, write down the definition of average acceleration. The definition of average acceleration is aAve = `dv / `dt. Please make any comments you feel appropriate about your understanding of the process so far.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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21:46:20 `q006. If a runner is moving at 6 meters / sec at clock time t = 1.5 sec after starting a race, and at 9 meters / sec at clock time t = 3.5 sec after starting, then what is the average acceleration of the runner between these two clock times?
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RESPONSE --> 9 meters/sec - 6 meters/sec = 3 meters/sec 3.5 seconds - 1.5 seconds = 1.5 seconds 3 meters/sec / 1.5 seconds = 4.5 meters/sec^2
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21:48:23 `q006a. What is the change `dv in the velocity of the runner during the time interval, and what is the change `dt in clock time during this interval?
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RESPONSE --> dv is the change from 6meters/sec to 9 meters/sec. dt is the change in time.
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21:54:14 `q006b. What therefore is the average rate at which the velocity is changing during this time interval?
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RESPONSE --> 4.5 meters/sec^2
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21:54:47 We see that the runner's velocity changes from 6 meters/second to 9 meters/second, a change of `dv = 9 m/s - 6 m/s = 3 m/s, during a time interval their runs from t = 1.5 sec to t = 3.5 sec so that the duration of the interval is `dt = 3.5 s - 1.5 s = 2.0 s. The rate at which the velocity changes is therefore 3 m/s / (2.0 s) = 1.5 m/s^2. Please comment if you wish on your understanding of the problem at this point.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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21:38:09 `q007. On a graph of velocity vs. clock time, we can represent the two events of this problem by two points on the graph. The first point will be (1.5 sec, 6 meters/second) and the second point will be (3.5 sec, 9 meters / sec). What is the run between these points and what does it represent? What is the rise between these points what does it represent? What is the slope between these points what does it represent?
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RESPONSE --> 3.5 sec - 1.5 sec = 2 sec This represents the difference in time. 9 meters/sec - 6 meters/sec = 3 meters/sec This represents the change in velocity. 3 meters/sec / 2 sec = 1.5 meters/sec^2 This represents the dv/dt.
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21:38:31 The rise from the first point to the second is from 6 meters/second to 9 meters/second, or 3 m/s. This represents the change `dv in velocity. The run is from 1.5 seconds to 3.5 seconds, or 2 seconds, and represents the change `dt in clock time. The slope, being the rise divided by the run, is 3 m/s / (2 sec) = 1.5 m/s^2. This slope represents `dv / `dt, which is the average acceleration during the time interval. You may if you wish comment on your understanding to this point.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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21:46:16 `q008. In what sense does the slope of any graph of velocity vs. clock time represent the acceleration of the object? For example, why does a greater slope imply greater acceleration?
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RESPONSE --> The greater the slope, the greater the velocity. Velocity deals with a distance in a given time. Acceleration also deal with distance in a given time and is related to velocity. If you have a greater slope, the velocity is greater and the acceleration is greater.
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21:46:35 Since the rise between two points on a graph of velocity vs. clock time represents the change in `dv velocity, and since the run represents the change `dt clock time, the slope represents rise / run, or change in velocity /change in clock time, or `dv / `dt. This is the definition of average acceleration.
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RESPONSE --> ok
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21:54:28 `q009. This is the same situation as in the preceding problem: An automobile coasts down a hill with a constant slope. At first its velocity increases at a very nearly constant rate. After it attains a certain velocity, air resistance becomes significant and the rate at which velocity changes decreases, though the velocity continues to increase. Describe a graph of velocity vs. clock time for this automobile (e.g., neither increasing nor decreasing; increasing at an increasing rate, a constant rate, a decreasing rate; decreasing at an increasing, constant or decreasing rate; the description could be different for different parts of the graph).
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RESPONSE --> At the beginning, the car is increasing at an increasing rate. The air resistance then makes the car to not increase velocity at the continuing rate that it had before. The car is neither increasing nor decreasing velocity at this point.
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22:08:32 Your graph should have velocity as the vertical axis and clock time as the horizontal axis. The graph should be increasing since the velocity starts at zero and increases. At first the graph should be increasing at a constant rate, because the velocity is increasing at a constant rate. The graph should continue increasing by after a time it should begin increasing at a decreasing rate, since the rate at which the velocity changes begins decreasing due to air resistance. However the graph should never decrease, although as air resistance gets greater and greater the graph might come closer and closer to leveling off. Critique your solution by describing or insights you had or insights you had and by explaining how you now know how to avoid those errors.
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RESPONSE --> I was thinking that the wind would make the car hold at its current velocity so that the car would neither increase nor decrease velocity. However, I see how the car would be increasing at a decreasing rate.
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22:13:59 `q010. An automobile coasts down a hill with a constant slope. At first its velocity increases at a very nearly constant rate. After it attains a certain velocity, air resistance becomes significant and the rate at which velocity changes decreases, though the velocity continues to increase. Describe a graph of acceleration vs. clock time for this automobile (e.g., neither increasing nor decreasing; increasing at an increasing rate, a constant rate, a decreasing rate; decreasing at an increasing, constant or decreasing rate; the description could be different for different parts of the graph).
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RESPONSE --> At the beginning of the graph, it would be increasing at an increasing rate. The car would then change to decreasing at an increasing rate.
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22:14:58 Your graph should have acceleration as the vertical axis and clock time as the horizontal axis. At first the graph should be neither increasing nor decreasing, since it first the acceleration is constant. Then after a time the graph should begin decreasing, which indicates the decreasing rate at which velocity changes as air resistance begins having an effect. An accurate description of whether the graph decreases at a constant, increasing or decreasing rate is not required at this point, because the reasoning is somewhat complex and requires knowledge you are not expected to possess at this point. However it is noted that the graph will at first decrease more and more rapidly, and then less and less rapidly as it approaches the t axis. In answer to the following question posed at this point by a student: Can you clarify some more the differences in acceleration and velocity? ** Velocity is the rate at which position changes and the standard units are cm/sec or m/sec. Acceleration is the rate at which velocity changes and its standard units are cm/s^2 or m/s^2. Velocity is the slope of a position vs. clock time graph. Acceleration is the slope of a velocity vs. clock time graph. **
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RESPONSE --> ok
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