A shopping cart that starts from rest, is accelerated for 4 s, moves at constant velocity for 4 s, and is decelerated for 4s until returning to rest, has an average acceleration of 0 m/s².
A shopper is pushing a cart down a grocery store aisle. The movement of the cart is:
- It starts from rest.
- From t = 0 s to t = 4.0 s it is accelerated with a constant force.
- From t = 4 s to t = 8.0 s it receives just enough force to balance the friction on the cart.
- From t = 8 s to t = 12 s it is decelerated until it comes to rest.
All in all, at the initial time (t = 0 s), the velocity is 0 m/s (rest) and at the final time (t = 12 s) the velocity is 0 m/s as well (rest). The average acceleration in that period is:
[tex]a = \frac{v_{12}-v__o}{t_{12}-t_0} = \frac{0m/m-0m/s}{12s-0s} = 0 m/s^{2}[/tex]
A shopping cart that starts from rest, is accelerated for 4 s, moves at constant velocity for 4 s, and is decelerated for 4s until returning to rest, has an average acceleration of 0 m/s².
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