Question

Jack and Jill raced up the hill. Jack beat Jill to the top of the hill. Does this mean that Jack had a higher peak acceleration than Jill during the race? Explain your answer

Answer 1

Any one who climbed up the hill first will win. That's mean jack has climbed faster than Jill . Now climbing speed / velocity of Jack means higher than Jill.

Now velocity,

in this case initial velocity is zero for both of them ( where they have decided to start the race) .

Now velocity in this case is a function of acceleration and time ... ( V = a×t ) ..

a - acceleration , t - time , v - velocity...

So if the velocity of Jack has to be higher then acceleration has to be higher than Jill.

So yes the statement is true .. that the acceleration of Jack is greater than Jill.