Homework Help: physics

Posted by jesthony on Friday, September 9, 2011 at 8:59pm.

A truck is traveling with a uniform velocity 24 m/s, when it passes a car at rest, at this instant the car starts to move and accelerate at the rate of 6m/s^2 in the same direction as the truck.
a.) How long will it take the car to overtake the truck
b.) How fast will the car travel before it overtakes the truck.

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