traveling at a constant speed of 280 ms-1 passes a police car at rest on the High 95, highway in south Florida. The policeman starts to move at the moment the speeder passes his car and accelerates at a constant rate of 15.0 ms-2 until he pulls even with the speeding Lamborghini. Find: (i) The time and the final velocity required for the police car to catch the speeding car. (ii) The distance travelled during the chase.

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A Lamborghini Aventador SVJ, traveling at a constant speed of 280 ms-1 passes a police car at rest on the High 95, highway in south Florida. The policeman starts to move at the moment the speeder passes his car and accelerates at a constant rate of 15.0 ms-2 until he pulls even with the speeding Lamborghini. Find:

(i) The time and the final velocity required for the police car to catch the speeding car.

(ii) The distance travelled during the chase.

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