Question

While walking across campus, preoccupied with thoughts about your calculus homework, you mistakenly wander into a time-travel gateway (surprisingly, a group project for physics that actually worked!) and find yourself in a prehistoric forest. Having seen Jurassic World, you recognize the velociraptor 40 meters away. Your involuntary gasp gives you away and the velociraptor spots you.It immediately thinks, “Mmmmmmm.... A tasty snack!” and begins to sprint toward you, accelerating at a constant rate of 4 meters/sec2 until it reaches its top speed, then continues after you at this speed. You, of course, immediately run away. How far can you get before you’re caught?Is there time enough for you to devise a survival plan? What happens?

(You will need to make some reasonable assumptions about the speed components of this problem.)

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