SOLUTION: Help please, my question is: If I jump in my car and reach a speed of 60KLM/HR in 5 seconds. What is my acceleration? I originally thought 12 KLM/Hr, but dad says that is wro

Question 709611: Help please, my question is:
If I jump in my car and reach a speed of 60KLM/HR in 5 seconds. What is my acceleration?
I originally thought 12 KLM/Hr, but dad says that is wrong. At the start I'm going slow, and then by the 5 second point in time, I'm travelling at 60 KLM/ HR.
Thanks.

Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, Alan3354:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At the start your speed is 0 km/hr. After moving and accelerating for 5 seconds your speed is 60 km/hr. Acceleration is [change in rate] divided by [change in time].

Here the units are changed first to seconds instead of hours, but your purposes may justify not other time units.

(60 km/hour) * (1 hour/60 min) * (1 min/60 sec) = 1/60 km/sec

Look at the data.
final rate = 1/60 km/sec
initial rate = 0 km/sec
final time = 5 sec
initial time = at 0 sec

Acceleration =
==, in units of
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If I jump in my car and reach a speed of 60KLM/HR in 5 seconds. What is my acceleration?
I originally thought 12 KLM/Hr, but dad says that is wrong. At the start I'm going slow, and then by the 5 second point in time, I'm travelling at 60 KLM/ HR.
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60 km/hr = 1 km/min = 1/60 km/sec
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a = (1/60)/5 = 1/300 km/sec/sec
a = 10/3 meters/sec/sec
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