Starting from rest, a truck travels in a straight line for 8.0 s with a uniform acceleration of +1.6 m/s2. The driver then applies the brakes for 3.0 s, causing a uniform acceleration of −3.0 m/s2 over that time.(a) What is the truck's speed at the end of the braking period?
(b) What is the total distance traveled by the truck (from the point where it started at rest to the end of the braking period)?

Arunner is jogging at a steady 3.6 km/hr. when the runner is 2.9 km from the finish line, a bird begins flying from the runner to the finish line at 14.4 km/hr (4 times as fast as the runner). when the bird reaches the finish line, it turns around and flies back to the runner. even though the bird is a dodo, we will assume that it occupies only one point in space, i.e., a zero-length bird. how far does the bird travel? (b) after this first encounter, the bird then turns around and flies from the runner back to the finish line, turns around again and flies back to the runner. the bird repeats the back and forth trips until the runner reaches the finish line. how far does the bird travel from the beginning? (i.e. include the distance traveled to the first encounter)