
A particle moves in a straight line, starting at time and continuing until it comes to rest. While it is moving the particle has acceleration , in the positive direction along the line. This acceleration is given by , where is the time from the start, in seconds. The particle starts with speed and finishes with speed . Find the time when the particle comes to rest.

Important Questions on General Motion in a Straight Line
A car is moving in a straight line. The acceleration, , at time after the car starts to move is modelled as for and for , where and are constants.
Show that

A car is moving in a straight line. The acceleration, , at time after the car starts to move is modelled as for and for , where and are constants. At the velocity of the car is . Show that .

A car is moving in a straight line. The acceleration, , at time after the car starts to move is modelled as for and for , where and are constants. At the velocity of the car is . Work out the distance travelled in the time interval .

A car is moving in a straight line. The acceleration, , at time after the car starts to move is modelled as for and for , where and are constants. By considering the variation of acceleration with time at , criticise the model.

A particle moves on a straight line, starting from rest at a point of the line. The time after starts to move is , and the particle moves along the line with constant acceleration until it passes through a point at time . After passing through the velocity of is .
Find the acceleration of immediately after it passes through . Hence show that the acceleration of decreases by as it passes through .

A particle moves on a straight line, starting from rest at a point of the line. The time after starts to move is , and the particle moves along the line with constant acceleration until it passes through a point at time . After passing through the velocity of is .
Find the distance moved by from to .

A hockey ball is hit so that it moves in a horizontal straight line with acceleration , along the direction of travel; , where is the time from when the ball was hit, in seconds. The initial speed of the ball is . Find the speed of the ball when it has travelled .
(Note: you will need an equation solver for this question)

A hockey ball is hit so that it moves in a horizontal straight line with acceleration , along the direction of travel; , where is the time from when the ball was hit, in seconds. The initial speed of the ball is . Find the distance that the ball has travelled when the ball is first momentarily stationary.
