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The brakes of a train can produce a retardation of 1.7ms-2. If the train is travelling at 100km h-1 and applies the brakes what distance does it travel before stopping? (have done this part and got the correct answer of 227m).

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If the driver applies the brakes 15m too late to stop at the station then what speed is the train travelling when it passes through that station?

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Newton's Equations of Motion are applied to stopping distances.

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According to Newton's equations of motion,

Vf^2 = Vi^2 + ...

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