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Homework Statement
setting a new world record in a 100m race, maggie and judy cross the finish line in a dead heat, both taking 10.2s. Accelerating uniformly, maggie took 2.0s and judy 3.0s to attain maximum speed, which they maintained for the rest of the race. (a) what was the acceleration of each sprinter?
Homework Equations
xf=xi+vit+1/2*at^2
xf=xi+1/2(vi+vf)t
vf=vi+at
The Attempt at a Solution
tried using the 2nd equation listed to get the distance which i would then factor into the first equation ... and dealing with multi variables.. things got very messy from here... i ripped apart 3 pages from my notebook already so some help would be highly appreciated.