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Solutions – Fundamental Applied Maths 2nd Ed
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Hi. How is he greatest gap between two particles when their speeds are equal. If one is accelerating and the other decelerating then wouldn’t there be a bigger gap?
One argument comes from calculus, if the position of car
and car
(
is behind
) is
and
respectively then their separated distance is
and according to calculus their minimum or maximum distance apart will be when
which means
which then of course means
It is not clear from this argument alone which this will be, minimum or maximum. That depends on the acceleration but it will either be a minimum a maximum. For a maximum, which is what you want, the second derivative must be negative, that is
that is
So the first car must be have a greater acceleration than the second car at the moment their velocities are equal.
You are right, technically, equal velocities alone is not enough for a maximum.