Examples of acceleration in the following topics:
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- Consider, for example, a car that begins at rest and accelerates at a constant rate of 4 meters per second each second.
- When the first car begins to accelerate, the second car is 400 meters ahead of it.
- To determine where the cars are when they are alongside one another and how much time has passed since the first began to accelerate, we can algebraically solve the system of equations using substitution:
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- In a clearer example, when your car accelerates from 0 to 100 mph, at some point, even for a microsecond, your car is travelling at 21.5 mph.
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- The formula relates height (h) to initial velocity (v0) and gravitational acceleration (g):