Question

A soccer player is running upfeild at 10m/s and comes to a stop in 3 seconds facing in the same direction what is his acceleration

Answer 1

-3.33 m/s^2



The soccer player decelerates from 10 m/s to 0 m/s. Because he decelerates the acceleration will be a negative value. Since he takes 3 seconds to decelerate, divide his original velocity by 3



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