Braking distance - the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute

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Maths delivers!Braking distanceDr Michael Evans AMSIEditor: Dr Jane Pitkethly, La Trobe UniversityIllustrations and web design: Catherine Tan, Michael ShawFor teachers of Secondary Mathematics© The University of Melbourne on behalf of theAustralian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI),2013 (except where otherwise indicated). Thiswork is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 UnportedLicense. 2011.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/Australian Mathematical Sciences InstituteBuilding 161The University of MelbourneVIC 3010Email: enquiries@amsi.org.auWebsite: www.amsi.org.au
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4The equations of motion for constant acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5The stopping-distance formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Speed while braking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Thinking time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Answers to exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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