A car moving at a constant speed of 40m/s overtakes a stationary police car which immediately...

A car moving at a constant speed of 40m/s overtakes a stationary police car which immediately starts to chase the speeding car at a constant acceleration.

What is the speed of the police car when it overtakes the speeding car?

(Note: No other knowns except speed of speeding car and that the police car has constant acceleration).

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Summary:- In this question we let particular value of police car acceleration and further solve when police car overtakes the speeding car then what is speed of police car.

Colby Messinger answered 1 year ago

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