Consider driving a car in one direction along a straight road for 10 minutes. You start...

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Consider driving a car in one direction along a straight roadfor 10 minutes. You start from rest. During the first 1 minute, youspeed up with constant acceleration until you reach 60 m/s. Duringthe next 5 minutes, you maintain constant speed at 60 m/s. Duringthe final 4 minutes, you have constant negative acceleration (i.e.deceleration) until you are not moving.

How far in total did you travel during the whole 10minutes? Express your answer in units of meters.

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Initial speed of the car V1 0 ms Time period of the first part T1 1 min 1 x 60 sec 60 sec Speed reached at the end of first part V2 60 ms Constant acceleration of the car in the first    See Answer
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