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A1 practical: Acceleration of a Ferrari support

This is a straightforward exercise but the fact it is real data from a very fast car makes it more interesting than a trolley running down an inclined plane. The graph I obtained is shown below. Notice that I've done this graph in excel since I wanted to join the dots with a smooth curve rather than a best fit curve. The graph clearly shows a maximum acceleration after about 8s, this was when the speed was around 100...

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