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:) Our superhero is not entirely exempt from the laws of physics, however, and in order to reach speed v she first needs to accelerate to it from rest. Assume that her acceleration is a constant a, and that she accelerates until she reaches speed v. What is the total distance she would actually get to fly when including her acceleration phase?

:) Our superhero is not entirely exempt from the laws of physics, however, and in order to reach speed v she first needs to accelerate to it from rest. Assume that her acceleration is a constant a, and that she accelerates until she reaches speed v. What is the total distance she would actually get to fly when including her acceleration phase?

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Problem 1: A flying superhero is trying to save the people on two trains (somehow) running towards each other for a head-on collision. To do so, she has asked the people on each train to line up at the ends of their train and wait for her to whisk them away one by one. She goes back and forth between each train for each new person, dropping them off at a station between the two trains' initial positions. We may neglect the short time she spends for each drop-off. (a) The speed vi of train 1 is larger than the speed v2 of train 2, and both trains are moving at constant speeds. If the two trains initially started at a distance D away from each other, how much are the distances di and d2 each train will travel until they collide? (b) Our superhero plans to stop at each train end to pick up a person, then fly at a fast, constant speed v to both drop off the person and head off to the other train. She would repeat this process for as long as she can until the two trains eventually collide. At this speed, how much is the total distance she would need to fly back and forth between the trains until collision? The time for her to slow down when she reaches a train is negligible. Our superhero is not entirely exempt from the laws of physics, however, and in order to reach speed v she first needs to accelerate to it from rest. Assume that her acceleration is a constant a, and that she accelerates until she reaches speed v. What is the total distance she would actually get to fly when including her acceleration phase?
Transcribed Image Text:Problem 1: A flying superhero is trying to save the people on two trains (somehow) running towards each other for a head-on collision. To do so, she has asked the people on each train to line up at the ends of their train and wait for her to whisk them away one by one. She goes back and forth between each train for each new person, dropping them off at a station between the two trains' initial positions. We may neglect the short time she spends for each drop-off. (a) The speed vi of train 1 is larger than the speed v2 of train 2, and both trains are moving at constant speeds. If the two trains initially started at a distance D away from each other, how much are the distances di and d2 each train will travel until they collide? (b) Our superhero plans to stop at each train end to pick up a person, then fly at a fast, constant speed v to both drop off the person and head off to the other train. She would repeat this process for as long as she can until the two trains eventually collide. At this speed, how much is the total distance she would need to fly back and forth between the trains until collision? The time for her to slow down when she reaches a train is negligible. Our superhero is not entirely exempt from the laws of physics, however, and in order to reach speed v she first needs to accelerate to it from rest. Assume that her acceleration is a constant a, and that she accelerates until she reaches speed v. What is the total distance she would actually get to fly when including her acceleration phase?
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