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A car is moving with speed u. Driver of car sees a traffic light. His reaction time is t, then find out the distance travelled by the car after the instant driver decided to apply breaks?
(Assume uniform retardation “a” after applying breaks.)

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`ut+(u^(2))/(2a)`
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