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Distance v Displacement
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What is distance?
The total path someone/something traveled
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Name 3 units of time
hr, min, s, yr
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Convert 2 hours to minutes.
120 min
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Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson runs one time around the track - 400 meters - in 38 seconds. What is his speed?
10.5 m/s
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My grandma walks to the mailbox every morning. The mailbox is 20 ft from her front door. She walks to the mailbox and back. What is her distance traveled?
40 ft.
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What is speed?
How fast something traveled over a specific distance
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What is the common unit for speed in physics?
m/s
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Convert 20 minutes to hours.
0.33 hr
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The average speed of an object which moves 10 km in 30 minutes is ______
0.33 km/min
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My grandma walks to the mailbox every morning. The mailbox is 20 ft from her front door. She walks to the mailbox and back. What is her displacement?
0ft
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What is displacement?
The distance between where you start and where you end.
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What 3 possible units for distance?
m, mi, km, yd
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Convert 500 m to miles
0.31 mi
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A car is going 35 mi/hr to reach its destination 175 mi away. How long will it take to reach the destination?
5 hr
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Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson runs one time around the track - 400 meters - in 38 seconds. What is his displacement?
0m
400
What is the equation for velocity?
displacement/time
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Give 2 units for speed
mph , m/s
400
Convert 10 m/s to mph.
22.4 mph
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If I traveled an average speed of 60 mph from Detroit to Chicago in 5 hours, what is the distance I traveled?
300 mi
400
A physics teacher walks 4 meters East, 2 meters South, 4 meters West, and finally 2 meters North. This took 24 seconds. What is her distance traveled?
12 m
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What is a vector?
A line that has magnitude (a measurement/number) and direction
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When giving an answer for displacement, what do you need to include?
a unit and a direction
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Convert 65 mph to m/s.
29.1 m/s
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A track team is going to state finals just past Harrisburg, 135 miles away. The bus travels along the turnpike at 65 mi/hour, but stops at a rest stop 55 miles into the trip for 15 min. Then, the bus continues at 65 mi/hour until the bus reaches its final destination. How long was the entire trip?
2.33 hr
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A physics teacher walks 4 meters East, 2 meters South, 4 meters West, and finally 3 meters North. This took 24 seconds. What is her displacement?
1 m North
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