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A police officer starts from rest in pursuit of a speedertravelling with a speed 16.00 m/s. After a time t the policeofficer has caught up to the speeder. Write an expression for theacceleration of the police officer as a function of the time, t,that the officer catches the speeder. This means the only variablein the expression is t.

Given that the speeder's velocity is 16.00 m/s, and the distancetravelled was 46 m, what was the police officer's acceleration?

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Physics: Principles with Applications
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