What's your speed?
Vicious Vocabulary
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Acceptable Acceleration
It's formulaic
100
D=20m T=10s
What is 2 m/s?
100

Distance traveled per unit of time

What is speed?

100
The standard unit of measurement for length
What is the meter?
100
A car advertisement states that a certain car can accelerate from rest to 70 km/h in 7 seconds. Find the car’s average acceleration.
What is 10 km/h/s?
100
Speed
What is speed=distance divided by time?
200
D=150 km T=2 h
What is 75 km/h?
200
Speed in a given direction
What is velocity?
200
The basic unit of time
What is seconds?
200

Acceleration?

S = 5 m/s

t= 5 s

What is 1 m/s/s?

200
Time
What is time = distance divided by speed?
300
How far you will go if you run a t 12 m/s for 15 seconds.
What is 180 m?
300

Average rate an object is moving over time.

What is average speed?

300
The basic unit of speed?
What is m/s?
300

The acceleration of a car that travels in a straight line at a constant speed.

What is 0 m/s2?

300
Distance
What is distance = speed x time?
400
How fast a person is running if they run the length of a 100 m football field in 20 seconds.
What is 5 m/s?
400
The rate at which an object is moving at a given instant in time.
What is instantaneous speed?
400
The unit of acceleration if speed is m/s and time is s.
What is m/s2 or m/s/s?
400

A runner covers the last straight stretch of a race in 4 s. During that time, he speeds up from 5 m/s to 9 m/s. The runner’s acceleration in this part of the race.

What is 1 m/s/s?

400
Acceleration
What is a=Vf-Vi divided by time?
500
How fast a pitch is if the pitcher’s mound in baseball is 85 m from the plate and it takes 4 seconds for a pitch to reach the plate.
What is 21.25 m/s?
500
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is acceleration?
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The unit of acceleration if the speed is in km/h and the time is in h.

What is km/h2

500

You are traveling in a car that is moving at a velocity of 20 m/s. Suddenly, a car 10 meters in front of you slams on it’s brakes. At that moment, you also slam on your brakes and slow to 5 m/s. Calculate the acceleration if it took 2 seconds to slow your car down.

What is -7.5 m/s/s?

500
Average Speed
What is avg. speed = total distance divided by total time?
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