I am sorry I have stuffed the order up!
Anyway the answers for 1 and 3 are below.
The graphs are relevant to all of the questions anyway.
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I always have to think about these very hard. I am sure that there are short cuts.
You have a graph of displacement verses time.
underneath I draw a graph of velocity verses time
and under that I drew accel vs time.
I lined the three up so that P, Q, R, and S are all directly under each other. in the 3 graphs.
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I'm going to consider the velocity graph first.
Now at Q and S the partical is stopped so velocity is 0.
At P the velocity is positive and that looks like a turning point so velocity is maximum.
P is the only point that has positive velocity
At R the velocity is negative and again on the displacement graph it is a turning point so it is a minimum.
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Now I go from the velocity graph to the acceleration graph.
At P and R the acceleration is 0
At Q acceleration is negative and a tuning point
That leaves S Acceleration is positive.
SO S MUST BE THE ANSWER for the greatest acceleration.
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Lets see if I could have used a short cut.
At S, the displacement is a minimum, so velocity is 0, acceleration is positive. (It is about to go in positive direction so acceleration must be positive.
Maybe you can just work through the logic of each point like this but I would still use the diagrams.
Maybe alan can do it more simply. He can probably just 'see' the answer. LOL
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You already know that I have little confidence in Physics but I believe that is correct. Draw the graphs and see what I mean.