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Acceleration: Constant, With Initial Velocity

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Somewhere between Lac La Hache and Kamloops, when Joe finally gets a passing lane, to get around the slow vehicle in front of him he hits the gas and speeds up from 95.6 km/h to 124.7 km/h in 4.6 seconds. How many "g's" is this acceleration equivalent to? (1 g=9.8 m/s2).

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