• ElmLion [any]
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    2 years ago

    5 ft/s is an incredibly slow run. My boy is fake sprinting away while actually going at a slow walking pace.

    And 1ft/sec is practically an impossible speed to walk at, she's like gone so insane she's pigeon-stepping away.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Because its DiffEq, I'm assuming these were intended to be accelerations rather than velocities. So, he starts walking away and then picks up into a sprint. She starts at a crawl and advances to a steady walk.

      But I bet the person writing the prompt (or the app translating the question) fumbled the notation for s^2, so now (hopefully) the entire class is going to fail this question and get it curved out.

      • ElmLion [any]
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        2 years ago

        Agreed. But even then, who the hell walks away from a point with linear acceleration? That's really hard to picture.