Acceleration
 

Acceleration problem 1


A bus travels between two stops, A and B. The bus starts from rest at A and accelerates at a constant rate of until it reaches a speed of . It then travels at this constant speed before decelerating at a constant rate of , coming to rest at B. The total time for the journey is . Find an expression, in terms of , for the length of time that the bus is travelling with constant speed.


 

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