Suppose a car is travelling at constant 20mls, the river sees a trafic light turn red.After 0.530s uas elapsedthe driver applies the brakea and the car decelerates at 7mls^2.what is the stopping distance of the as measured from the point where the driver first notices the red light?
There are two parts to the distance. The first part is the small distance the car travels before driver brakes s1=vxt=20m/sx0.53s . The second distance we find by integrating from point 1 where brakes are applied to point 2 where car stops. To do this we first write dv=a dt from definition of acceleration. And then manipulate definition of velocity to get dt = ds/v and substitute that into first equation to replace dt there. After we move the v in denominator over to other side we get v dv = a ds we integrate this from v1 of 20 m/s to v2 of 0 m/s on left and s1 of 0 to s2. We then solve for s2 and add it to first distance. Note that since s2 is zero some terms are zero and leaves only s2 as unknown.