Question

While mountain biking you find you can accelerate from 0 m/s to 8 m/s in 3 seconds. What is your acceleration? Is this acceleration higher than that of the bear you are riding away from which accelerates from 0 to 30 m/s in 8 seconds?

Answer 1

Your acceleration is approximately 2.67 m/s squared. It is lower than that of the bear, whose acceleration is 3.75 m/s squared