A car of mass $m$ starts from rest and accelerates so that the instantaneous power delivered to the car has…

A car of mass $m$ starts from rest and accelerates so that the instantaneous power delivered to the car has a constant magnitude $P_0$. The instantaneous velocity of this car is proportional to
  1. $t^2 P_0$
  2. $t^{1 / 2}$
  3. $t^{-1 / 2}$
  4. $t / \sqrt{m}$

Solution

Power $P_0=F v$ $\begin{aligned} & =\left(m \frac{d v}{d t}\right) v \\ & =m v \frac{d v}{d t} \end{aligned}$ Integrating both sides $\begin{aligned} \int P_0 d t & =\int m v d v \\ P_0 t & =\frac{m v^2}{2} \\ v^2 & =\frac{2 P_0 t}{m} \\ v & \propto t^{1 / 2} \end{aligned}$

Asked in: NEET 2012 (Mains)

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