Math 1210 Project 2
Math 1210 Project 2
Math 1210 Project 2
04/15/2020
Math 1210
Suda Satcuna
The first thing I noticed when looking at this assignment is that everything is in different units.
To make things easier down the line I decided to convert the time units into minutes and the distance
units into miles, giving me:
75 180𝑡𝑡
for the maximum velocity and for the acceleration and deceleration.
60 5280
Next to find the formula for velocity and distance I need to take the anti derivative of the original
acceleration formula twice.
𝑓𝑓" = 3𝑡𝑡
3
𝑓𝑓 ′ (𝑡𝑡) = 𝑡𝑡 2
2
1
𝑓𝑓(𝑡𝑡) = 𝑡𝑡 3
2
Next to find the distance travelled in 20 minutes starting and ending at a dead stop I need to
calculate0the amount of time it takes to reach full speed, this will also give me the time it takes the train
to stop. I first need to convert miles per hour to feet per second
75
∗ 5280 = 110
3600
Now I need to find when the train’s velocity this 110 feet per second or 75 miles per hour.
3
110 = 𝑡𝑡 2
2
220
= 𝑡𝑡 2
3
220
� = 𝑡𝑡
3
20 ∗ 60 = 1200
Now I find need to find how far it travels in this time and add the distance it travels while accelerating
and decelerating.
1182.873023 ∗ 110~130116.0326
3
1 220
�� � ≈ 313.9945741
2 3
313.9945741 ∗ 2 = 627.9891483
627.9891483 + 130116.0326 = 130744.0217
I now need to convert feet into miles
130744.0217
≈ 24.7621533
5280
This indicates that the train traveled 24.7621533 miles in 20 minutes.
Now to find how fast the train can travel 50 miles. I’ll first convert the 50 miles into feet.
50 ∗ 5280 = 264000
Now I’ll take out the distance for acceleration and deceleration, divide by the top speed in feet per
second, add the acceleration/deceleration time and convert seconds into minutes.
220
2394.291008 + 2� ≈ 2411.417984
3
2411.417984
≈ 40.19029974
60
Meaning that the train should be able to travel 50 miles in a little over forty minutes.
To find the distance between two station that take a minimum of 18.5 minutes to travel between I’ll first
convert minutes to seconds subtract the acceleration/deceleration times, multiply by the top speed in
feet per second, then convert feet into miles.
18.5 ∗ 60 = 1110
220
1110 − 2� ≈ 1092.873023
3
Reflection
This was something of a difficult project to wrap my head around what was being asked and what I
needed to do and, honestly I’m still not sure I got it right. I had a lot of trouble at first figuring out what
units my answers were coming out in since the numbers I was getting weren’t make any sense at least
not until I stopped trying to convert units before working the equations ( a train traveling 313 miles
while accelerating but only covering three miles while at top speed doesn’t make any sense). When I
stopped converting thing before running through the equations, the numbers I was getting started
making a lot more sense. The only really useful use for antiderivatives that come to mind for me right
now that does not involve a thing moving would in chemistry. I believe that you can actually find
equations for the rate at which a chemical reaction is occurring. This “rate of change” be used to find an
equation that would tell you how much of a specific reagent or product was present at any given time
during the reaction.