SOLUTION: find the distance required for a car to reach a velocity of 80 ft/s when the acceleration is 20 ft/s^2 use the equation v= square root 2as, where v is the velocity, a is accelerati

Question 1115103: find the distance required for a car to reach a velocity of 80 ft/s when the acceleration is 20 ft/s^2 use the equation v= square root 2as, where v is the velocity, a is acceleration, and s is the distance
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S should be expressed in displacement not in distance since the problem is involved in a vector quantity. Anyway if this is meant by the problem and no direction is involved, as magnitude is indicated alone then, distance would be accepted for this case now.
we know that . We'll isolate s in the given formula.
1st - square both sides: which leaves us
2nd - divide both sides by 2a(we apply division PE)
where
3rd - Substitute

s = 160 ft