A train travels from station A to station B which is 300km away. It has to stop at 8 other stations along the way and wait for at least 5 minutes to let passengers get on/off. The stations are well spaced out.
An expert train driver is able to drive the train as efficiently as possible so that it takes exactly 2 hours from A to B. Given that the train has a maximum acceleration of 0.5m/s^2, what is the maximum speed of the train to the nearest m/s?
(You can assume that acceleration is always linier up to its top speed)
Can you also find a gereral formula to find maxspeed v in terms of all the other variables?
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A train travels from station A to station B which is 300km away. It has to stop at 8 other stations along the way and wait for at least 5 minutes to let passengers get on/off. The stations are well spaced out.
An expert train driver is able to drive the train as efficiently as possible so that it takes exactly 2 hours from A to B. Given that the train has a maximum acceleration of 0.5m/s^2, what is the maximum speed of the train to the nearest m/s?
(You can assume that acceleration is always linier up to its top speed)
Can you also find a gereral formula to find maxspeed v in terms of all the other variables?
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