Also do and turn in the following problem (from
Hughes-Hallett et al., page 308, #13):
A car going 80 ft/sec (about 55 mph) brakes to a stop in five seconds. Assume
the deceleration is constant.
- Graph the velocity against time, t, for 0<or= t <or=
5 seconds.
- Represent, as an area on the graph, the total distance traveled from the
time the brakes are applied until the car comes to a stop.
- Find this area and hence the distance traveled.
- Now find the total distance traveled using antidifferentiation.