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A cheetah can accelerate from rest to a speed of 28.5 m/s in 4.25 s. What is its acceleration (in m/s2)

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Answer:

6.71 meters per second squared

Explanation:

Speed vs velocity

Average acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity per unit of time.

Velocity is a vector, a quantity that has both direction and magnitude (size).  In this case, the cheetah is not changing directions, so we can ignore vector directions, and treat velocity as just speed.

[tex]a=\dfrac {\Delta v}{\Delta t}[/tex]

Analyzing units

The units of the acceleration requested are meters per second squared, and the units of speed and time are measured in meters per second, and seconds.

The units all match, so we just need to substitute and calculate/simplify

Calculations

[tex]a=\dfrac{(28.5[\frac {m}{s}])}{(4.25[s])}[/tex]

[tex]a=6.70588235294...[\frac {m}{s^2}][/tex]

Accounting for significant figures, the acceleration is 6.71 meters per second squared.