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- starting from rest at the Base Camp
- traveling to Station Two
- remaining at Station Two for the same amount of time it took to get there
- turning the boat around and traveling to Station One (without stopping at Base Camp)
- remaining at Station One for the same amount of time you were at Station Two
- turning the boat around and returning to Base Camp and stopping there
A.) Plot Sketch graphs of your position and velocity as a function of time for your entire daily rounds. Assume that whenever you travel, you accelerate toward the destination for exactly half the trip and then decelerate for the other half.
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Note that the peaks of the velocity (solid dark red graph) do not occur at the same time as the position (dotted blue graph) peaks! Rather, they correspond to changes in the curvature of the position graph. |
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