Quiz 2 October 9, 2009

1) Joe has been driving a car at 60 kmph for 10 minutes. Joe is not fully
alert and in the next 2 minutes, his speed increases at steady rate to 80
kmph. Realizing this, Joe slows the car down at a steady rate in the
next 1 minute to 60 kmph. Draw the velocity versus time and
acceleration vs time graphs for this motion. Axes and tick marks must
be labeled. The end points of all lines must have their coordinates
labeled. How far has Joe traveled in these 13 minutes?

Compute the area under these lines to get the distance

traveled.
60 kmph = 60 km/60 min = 1 km/min
80 kmph = 80 km/60 min = 4/3 km/min
Area under rectangle = 1 km/min x 13 min = 13 km
Area under left triangle = ½ (4/3-1) km/min x 2 min = 1/3 km
Area under right triangle = ½ (4/3-1) km/min x 1 min = 1/6
km
Total distance traveled = 13.5 km.
2) Moe drives 450 miles straight east to reach Utopia. Along the way, he
drives 420 miles at 70 mph and 30 miles at 20 mph. Joe drives east on
the same road (from the same starting point) at a steady 75 mph for
420 miles and then drives another 60 miles at 30 mph to reach Utopia.
He drives more because he overshoots Utopia and has to go back west
on the same road. How far from Utopia is Joe when he turns around,
and how much time has elapsed at that point? How far from Utopia is
Joe when Moe reaches Utopia?

Joe drives a total of 480 miles to reach Utopia, but since

Utopia is 450 miles east of their starting position (that’s how
far Moe drove east to reach it), Joe drives 30 more miles after
passing Utopia. This means he had to drive 15 miles east
after passing Utopia, then turn around and drive 15 miles
west to reach Utopia again. Thus, he is 15 miles from Utopia
when he turns around.

Joe takes time tJ=420mi/75mph=5.6h before he slows down

to 30mph. He then drives another 45 miles before reaching
the turnaround point (30mi to pass Utopia, plus another
15mi before turning around), during which a time
tJ,2=45mi/30mph=1.5h has elapsed. Thus, the total time
elapsed is tJ = 5.6h + 1.5h = 7.1h.

Moe takes time tM=420mi/70mph + 30mi/20mph

=6h+1.5h=7.5h
tM – tJ,1 = 7.5h-5.6h = 1.9h is the time Joe drives at 30 mph
before Moe reaches Utopia. In this time he covers a distance
30mph x 1.9h = 57mi.
So the total distance covered by Joe when Moe reaches
Utopia is 420mi+57mi=477mi. Since he travels 480mi to
reach Utopia he is 3 mi from Utopia when Moe reaches there.