Acceleration Physics

[357RS]

I've read the following on another forum:


Imagine you have two cars - one following the other, say, 20 feet behind at 10mph. They both have identical acceleration characteristics and they both hit the throttle at the same time. They carry on accelerating until they reach 70mph. At this point the trailing car is now 140 feet behind. Elementary Newtonian physics.


Before I reply to it the vein that it's complete borrocks, can the wise and wiser confirm my analysis please.

[357RS]

Thanks all.

yorkshiregg I've just been doing the same clacs with dim and distant schoolboy physics.

trashbat: you had me worried for a while, hope you've had a coffee now.