physics - A car drives east at 15m/s when the driver notices a huge pothole in the pavement ahead. If the car can brake at 3m/s squared And it takes 5s to stop, how far did the car go in that time ?

A car drives east at 15m/s when the driver notices a huge pothole in the pavement ahead. If the car can brake at 3m/s squared And it takes 5s to stop, how far did the car go in that time ?

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steve johnson (Student, 10^th Grade)

I drew most of my all purpose kinematics diagram

Am a little confused on what am sloving for

Mahesh Godavarti (last edited 4 years ago) (Expert, Founder @Qalaxia)

Steve, the clue is in the phrase - "how far did the car go in that time?" "How far" translates to \Delta x . Also, if you can use \underbrace{ }_{5s} to indicate the time.