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Hola, basically I'm doing M1 and I kind of hate maths at the moment so bare with me if I ask any ridiculous really obvious questions.

I've got an old exam question from 2003 & our teacher gave us all the final answer for it but I'm confused as to how she got it.

5. A particle P moved with constant acceleration (2i-3j)m/s^-2. At time t seconds, it's velocity is v/m/s^-1. When t=0, v=-2i+7j.

a. Find the value of t when P is moving parallel to the vector i. (I've done this bit & got it correct. The answer is t= 2 and a third seconds.)

b. Find the speed of P when t=3. (this is the bit I'm ridiculously stuck on. I don't understand how to get to the answer, is there a formula or something I should know about that and I'm just being a bit dense?)

c. Find the angle between the vector j and the direction of motion of P when t=3. (Haven't yet tried this, but I suck at maths so all help would be appreciated.)

Thank you for your help in advance, even if you have to roll your eyes at my stupidity please help me:smile:
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Original post by tamsinaribena
Hola, basically I'm doing M1 and I kind of hate maths at the moment so bare with me if I ask any ridiculous really obvious questions.

I've got an old exam question from 2003 & our teacher gave us all the final answer for it but I'm confused as to how she got it.

5. A particle P moved with constant acceleration (2i-3j)m/s^-2. At time t seconds, it's velocity is v/m/s^-1. When t=0, v=-2i+7j.

a. Find the value of t when P is moving parallel to the vector i. (I've done this bit & got it correct. The answer is t= 2 and a third seconds.)

b. Find the speed of P when t=3. (this is the bit I'm ridiculously stuck on. I don't understand how to get to the answer, is there a formula or something I should know about that and I'm just being a bit dense?)

c. Find the angle between the vector j and the direction of motion of P when t=3. (Haven't yet tried this, but I suck at maths so all help would be appreciated.)

Thank you for your help in advance, even if you have to roll your eyes at my stupidity please help me:smile:


Part b is just SUVAT because you have constant acceleration. But remember that the velocity is a vector, so to find the speed you need the magnitude of velocity.
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Original post by davros
Part b is just SUVAT because you have constant acceleration. But remember that the velocity is a vector, so to find the speed you need the magnitude of velocity.


Thank you so much, as soon as you said magnitude of Velocity I knew exactly what I had to do, you're a star!

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