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Chapter 2, Problem 53EAP
A cheetah spots a Thomson’s gazelle, its preferred prey, and leaps into action, quickly accelerating to its top speed of 30 m/s, the highest of any land animal. However, a cheetah can maintain this extreme speed for only 15 s before having to let up. The cheetah is 170 m from the gazelle as it reaches top speed, and the gazelle sees the cheetah at just this instant. With negligible react ion time, the gazelle heads directly away from the cheetah, accelerating at 4.6 m/s2 for 5.0 s, then running at constant speed. Does the gazelle escape? If so, by what distance is the gazelle in from when the cheetah gives up?
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