ME 203 Homework

I don't know if anyone has encountered this, or if I am just doing something completely wrong, but I keep getting the velocity to be 18.976 m/s. The group that I work with has done this several different ways, and still come out with a different answer than in the back of the book. Is it possible that the back of the book is wrong, or am I just looking over something? We have been using the equations of motion with constant acceleration.

NUMBER 1.
Im not sure if I'm integrating a=(6+.02s) correctly. I took it as v=(6+.02s)t^2 and ect. but when I get position plug in 100 for s and solve for t I get 5 not 5.62.

NUMBER 2
I found all my equations of motion, and just can't see how to set them up to solve for t. I could understand how you could treat them as a piecewise function, and I've heard people say you need to use integration.

You are using the acceleration due to gravity when in meters (9.8) but the units in this problem are feet so you should use 32.2 for standard gravity.

n/m i figured it out

The acceleration is given as a function of position, so you cannot simply integrate with respect to time. There is a similar example in the book, but unfortunately I'm home now and don't have the textbook with me. Any help out there?

Yes, your peeps are right-you will have to integrate. The values of the acceleration are known, but the time that the car switches from acceleration to deceleration is unknown, as is the final time. You will have to perform the integrations including these unknown times and then solve for them using the final velocity and position of the car.

Number 7 seems too easy?
Are people getting Ar as -.25, and A theta as -3.2?

> The acceleration is given as a function of position, so you cannot simply integrate with respect to time. There is a similar example in the book, but unfortunately I'm home now and don't have the textbook with me. Any help out there?
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> Yes, your peeps are right-you will have to integrate. The values of the acceleration are known, but the time that the car switches from acceleration to deceleration is unknown, as is the final time. You will have to perform the integrations including these unknown times and then solve for them using the final velocity and position of the car.

For Problem 1, the example you are referring to is Example 12.4 on page 13. It helps...but I still can't get the right answer...probably doing something wrong because I am ending up with a pretty difficult integral that I had to use Maple to solve...then I got a solution of like 70 seconds so yeah that's wrong.

Problem 1: Use example 12.4 p13 to get a similar integral of ds/...?, and then refer to Appendix A table of integrals p657 in order to plug-in the necessary values. I got an answer of 5.625m.

Dave, that integral you get is solvable, it is just really difficult.I ended up getting the integral of t dt equals the integral of 1/(12s+.02s*2)*(1/2)ds with bounds from 0 to 100, which gives t then to be 5.62 secs.

p.s. i used asterisks because the carrots wouldn't display, those are powers.

> Dave, that integral you get is solvable, it is just really difficult.I ended up getting the integral of t dt equals the integral of 1/(12s+.02s*2)*(1/2)ds with bounds from 0 to 100, which gives t then to be 5.62 secs.
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> p.s. i used asterisks because the carrots wouldn't display, those are powers.

Yeah that's what I got...you'll have to show me how...I remember doing something like that before but I was drawing a blank last night.

Ok,
I got though most of this, set up the t= integral 1/(v) ds.... looked at the appendix found the closest fit to what we have. plug n chugged for 100 and got 32.124ect. which works out to t=8.013

I have checked it several times it doesn't look like I had an error in my numbers, but I know I should be getting 15.792 where I'm getting 32.

Only thing I can figure is I'm using the wrong equation in the appendix?? I used the third one down on the right hand side of the page and just took a=0.

I've tried it for both solutions given. The Ln gave me the 32. and sin-1 gives me 5.6 and 11.1

Yes, I know the integral is slightly ugly, but you can use matlab to solve it or using an integral table of the form Just let me know which method you use.