‘Taken from Mariam, 3 Land kraige, LG, 2012. Engineering Machanies - Dynamics, pp 32. Problem 2/15, ‘Staring from rest at Home plate, a baseball player runs to first base (90 fe away). He uniformiy accelerates over the first 10 ft to his maximum speed, which is then maintained until he crosses fist base. Ifthe overall run is ‘completed in 4 seconds, determine his maximum speed, the acceleration over the first 10 feet, and the time duration of the acceleration, https://pbs.twimg.com/madia/ErSn2xGIUAANOCA, pg ‘There Isat least 2 unknown variables to solve before conventional kinematics formulas can do thelr work. FORMULAS So # vot + 1/2 a? CASE I: from 0 to s: ot + = 200 + toe zee CASE IL : from + 80 = ya) Probably whats not Falping you analyze the problem le that you're ooking at the equation ins most simplified Town ‘The equations make assumptions that your starting time is always 0, which Is net the case forthe fst part. When working with problems in multiple time frames, here's how you should approach it: Firs, find out what you know: #0 bao wo per) = 90 bes wey What we are solving for: 4 ‘Analyze Vie have three unknowns, 50 we're going to need atleast three equations. Evary time an equation has an Unknown that wasn't asked for, we need to add another inesr-incependent equation ~ another constraint ~ to salve the system of equations. ‘So agen, we have to break this equation up into two parts, Let's look atthe velocity-dstance-scceleraton formal for parti: v2ave? = 2000°%0)80-2 Wa know vos 0, and that xs Is 10 and x95 0, £0 this simplifies to: v2 = 2085 to. = v2/20 “This equation is not asking for any new unknowns, therefore we need 2 more equations, This equation also correlates se ay, £9 our sacond equetion should try to add gome new information.Why don't we use the valocity-aceelaration-time equation? Mis vo + ao(ts to) wis Soe And la's plug in what we know about ao. while we're et it: vis wPe/20 20 = vith v= 20/t, So now we have a correlation between t and v). No naw information was requested, 20 we only need one equation, If we use the third kinematic equation forthe frst part, we're going to end up with a correlation for ax and th. But if you realy think about It - we have an equation that relates a; to v; and we have an equation that relates ty to v ‘Thus we're just going to end up with an equation that relates v; to itself, and that won't help us at all. We need a third equation that will end up causing @ correlation to aquel another constant, givas us @ second independent equation for 2of the unknowns, Since the second haf ie not accelareting, we should use the dletanca-vloety-time equation: Xa 1 + Valterta) + 1/2(81-2)te-th)? ‘The third term drops out because 2.2150, and if we plug in our knowns: 90 104 vst) 80 = 4vpvits And It's plug inthe correlation wa found for vs and 80 = 4(20/t) - (20/%)%, 80 = 80/t;-20 1008, = 80 t= 4/se Great! So let's plug this n to our velocty and time correlation equation: vi = 20va = 2074/5) vy = 25m/s Perfect! And we ean plug thi nto our acceleration end velocity coreation equation 20 2st20 1 31.25mys2, Results: ‘The maximum spaed was 25/5 ‘The acceleration forthe frst 40 fest was 28.25m/=? ‘The ime duration ofthe acceleration was 0.88. 20. ‘To answer your other questions: Finding a solution manual wil not teach you the analysis skile require for solving physis problems. No solution ‘manual will ever go in-depth as I have above, They wil just elther printout the results part or show you steps without explaining why they did those steps. 1s for a free onlin homework forum? Well, you're looking ata pretty good one! But I would stick to trying to ask your friends instead how they solved I. The reason? People who just learned how to solve something are beter at ‘explaining to others how they solved the problems. Almost everyone alse on here isa veteran of thir subject, and we {are not used to making the same trip-ups you and your peers might make when solving these problems. We can only [assume where you went wrong, or start completely from seratch every time. © Thank! ‘guess my problem wes I didn't know which equetion to sub to which {As soon as you polntad out the relationship between v and t, by substituting eq. 2 to eq. 1 in CASE 1 I was pretty much got, since there is snother equation in CASE 2 that has vt relationship. Regarding the forum, lt just that couldnt use LaTeX here, In the future I may have problams Involving calculus and ‘other tut,