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Example Question #51 : How To Find Acceleration
The position of an object is given by the equation . What is the acceleration of the object when ?
The acceleration equation can be found by differentiatind the position equation twice. The derivative can be found by using the power rule where if
Using this to differentiate the position equation gives
Repeating this process we can find the acceleration equation.
Using the acceleration equation, we can now find the acceleration at time .
Example Question #61 : How To Find Acceleration
The velocity of an object is given by the equation . What is the acceleration of the object at time ?
The acceleration of the object can be found by differentiating the velocity equation. To do this we can use the power rule and the chain rule where if
and where if
Using these two rules we find the acceleration equation to be
We can now solve for the acceleration at time
Example Question #62 : How To Find Acceleration
The velocity of an object is given by the equation . What is the acceleration of the object?
The acceleration of the object can be found by differentiating the velocity equation. To accurately differentiate the velocity equation, the quotient rule can be used where if
Using this equation with the velocity equation gives us
Example Question #63 : How To Find Acceleration
The velocity of an object is given by the equation . What is the acceleration of the object at time ?
The acceleration of the object can be found by differentiating the velocity equation. The velocity equation can be accurately differentiated using the quotient rule and the power rule where if
and if
Using these two rules we find that the acceleration equation is
We can now find the acceleration at
Example Question #64 : How To Find Acceleration
The velocity of an object is given by the equation . What is the acceleration of the object?
The acceleration of the object is the derivative of the velocity of the object. To differentiate the velocity equation we can use the power rule, chain rule, and product rule. The power rule is where if
The chain rule is where if
Lastly, The product rule is where if
Using these rules the acceleration equation is
Example Question #65 : How To Find Acceleration
The position, , of a particle is given by the following equation.
(Use radians for any trig functions)
What is the acceleration of the partice when ?
The acceleration, a, of a particle is given by
Thus using the power rule and the chain rule we can find our acceleration.
Taking the derivative once we get the velocity.
Taking the derivative a second time we get the acceleration.
Plugging in at we find
.
Where we used the fact that .
Example Question #66 : How To Find Acceleration
The velocity of an object is given by the equation . What is the acceleration of the object?
The acceleration of the object is equal to the derivative of the object's velocity. To accurately differentiate the the velocity of the object we must use the product rule where if
.
Using this rule we find the acceleration to be
.
Example Question #67 : How To Find Acceleration
The position of an object is given by the equation . What is the acceleration of the object?
The acceleration of the object can be found by differentiating the position of the object twice. This can be done using the power rule where if
.
Therefore the velocity of the object is
.
This is repeated to find the acceleration of the object
.
Example Question #68 : How To Find Acceleration
The velocity of an object is given by the equation . What is the acceleration of the object at time ?
None of the above.
The acceleration of the object can be found by differentiating the velocity. To differentiate the velocity accurately the chain rule and power rule can be used where if
and if
.
Differentiating the velocity equation we get,
.
We can now solve for the acceleration at
Example Question #69 : How To Find Acceleration
The velocity of an object is . What is the acceleration of the object?
The acceleration can be found by differentiating the velocity of the object. This can be done accurately using the power rule, chain rule, and product rule where if
if
and if
.
Therefore the acceleration of the object is
.