You are walking north on Massachusetts Avenue, intending to catch the Number 1 bus from MIT to Harvard Square. When you are a distance b to the south of the bus stop, you notice that the bus is already at the stop and is about to leave! At the exact moment that you begin running towards the bus (still northwards) at a constant speed vo, the bus pulls away from the stop and begins accelerating northwards at a constant rate abus. What is the minimum speed you need to be running in order to catch up with the bus? If you are running at this minimum speed, how far do you run before you catch up with the bus?

You are walking north on Massachusetts Avenue, intending to catch the Number 1 bus from MIT to Harvard Square. When you are a distance b to the south of the bus stop, you notice that the bus is already at the stop and is about to leave! At the exact moment that you begin running towards the bus (still northwards) at a constant speed vo, the bus pulls away from the stop and begins accelerating northwards at a constant rate abus. What is the minimum speed you need to be running in order to catch up with the bus? If you are running at this minimum speed, how far do you run before you catch up with the bus?

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You are walking north on Massachusetts Avenue, intending to catch the Number 1 bus from MIT
to Harvard Square. When you are a distance b to the south of the bus stop, you notice that the
bus is already at the stop and is about to leave! At the exact moment that you begin running
towards the bus (still northwards) at a constant speed vo, the bus pulls away from the stop and
begins accelerating northwards at a constant rate abus. What is the minimum speed you need to
be running in order to catch up with the bus? If you are running at this minimum speed, how far
do you run before you catch up with the bus?

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