Edexcel M1 2015 June — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleM1 (Mechanics 1)
Year2015
SessionJune
TopicSUVAT & Travel Graphs

5. A car travelling along a straight horizontal road takes 170 s to travel between two sets of traffic lights at \(A\) and \(B\) which are 2125 m apart. The car starts from rest at \(A\) and moves with constant acceleration until it reaches a speed of \(17 \mathrm {~m} \mathrm {~s} ^ { - 1 }\). The car then maintains this speed before moving with constant deceleration, coming to rest at \(B\). The magnitude of the deceleration is twice the magnitude of the acceleration.
  1. Sketch, in the space below, a speed-time graph for the motion of the car between \(A\) and \(B\).
  2. Find the deceleration of the car.