It takes a car 2.0 min to go from rest to 35.8 m/s. What is the acceleration of this car?

Answer 1

a = (v₂ - v₁)/t

v₁ = 0 (started from rest)

v₂ = 35.8 m/s

t = 2.0 min = 120 s

Plug in the numbers with t in seconds and get a in m/s².