A tricycle moving at 30 km/h was braked so that there is a constant retardation of 0.5 m/s2 . Find the time taken for the tricycle...

      

A tricycle moving at 30 km/h was braked so that there is a constant retardation of 0.5 m/s2 .
Find the time taken for the tricycle to stop.

  

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joseph
Change 30km/h to m/s
= 30000/3600
= 50/6 m/s
a = (v – u)/2
-0.5 = (0 – (50/6))/t
Solve for t = 16.6s

joseph rimiru answered the question on October 10, 2017 at 14:09


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