You can accelerate and brake on your bicycle with a maximum magnitude of the acceleration of 3 (m/s)/s. Your top speed is 12 m/s. You want to drop of your physics textbook at your friend who normally works with an electronic textbook version, but just called and asked you for your printed copy for the afternoon. She lives 168m up the road from you. You need 11 seconds to run out of your apartment and grab your bike, and you need another 11s to run to your friend’s apartment door to hand her the book after stopping with your bike. How long to you need in total to bring her the book?

You can accelerate and brake on your bicycle with a maximum magnitude of the acceleration of 3 (m/s)/s. Your top speed is 12 m/s. You want to drop of your physics textbook at your friend who normally works with an electronic textbook version, but just called and asked you for your printed copy for the afternoon. She lives 168m up the road from you. You need 11 seconds to run out of your apartment and grab your bike, and you need another 11s to run to your friend’s apartment door to hand her the book after stopping with your bike. How long to you need in total to bring her the book?