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AP Physics C: Mechanics
1.3 Representing Motion
1.2 Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration
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Figure 1. Rocket model on a guide wire in a wind tunnel.
Figure 1. Rocket model on a guide wire in a wind tunnel.
Students set up an experiment with a model rocket in a wind tunnel. The wind tunnel is programmed to produce a time-varying force that accelerates the rocket along a horizontal, low-friction guide wire. The acceleration \(a\) of the rocket model varies with time \(t\) according to the equation \(a(t) = c\sqrt{t}\), where \(c\) is an unknown positive constant and \(t \ge 0\). The rocket starts from rest at \(x = 0\) when \(t = 0\).

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