How would I figure out the distance traveled by an object with non-constant...

Meg

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F = ma = m d/dt( dxdt) and a is your acceleration formula ( usually a is function of x or t) and d/dt( dxdt) is the second derivative of x with respect to t. This gives you a differential equation to solve to get your answer. There is no standard way to solve these problems and many have no analytic solution, but the ones assigned as homework do.
 
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