OCR M1 2009 January — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleM1 (Mechanics 1)
Year2009
SessionJanuary
TopicNon-constant acceleration

5 A car is travelling at \(13 \mathrm {~m} \mathrm {~s} ^ { - 1 }\) along a straight road when it passes a point \(A\) at time \(t = 0\), where \(t\) is in seconds. For \(0 \leqslant t \leqslant 6\), the car accelerates at \(0.8 t \mathrm {~m} \mathrm {~s} ^ { - 2 }\).
  1. Calculate the speed of the car when \(t = 6\).
  2. Calculate the displacement of the car from \(A\) when \(t = 6\).
  3. Three \(( t , x )\) graphs are shown below, for \(0 \leqslant t \leqslant 6\). \begin{figure}[h]
    \includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{470e70de-66ba-4dcc-a205-0c92f29471b1-3_382_458_1366_340} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Fig. 1}
    \end{figure} \begin{figure}[h]
    \includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{470e70de-66ba-4dcc-a205-0c92f29471b1-3_382_460_1366_881} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Fig. 2}
    \end{figure} \begin{figure}[h]
    \includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{470e70de-66ba-4dcc-a205-0c92f29471b1-3_384_461_1366_1420} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Fig. 3}
    \end{figure} (a) State which of these three graphs is most appropriate to represent the motion of the car.
    (b) For each of the two other graphs give a reason why it is not appropriate to represent the motion of the car.