position vs time
distance vs time
velocity vs time
acceleration
all about the line
100
Based on the graph the object starts at this position.
What is 0.2m?
100
According to the graph the object is going towards its starting location (going home) during this time interval.
What is 15 to 23 seconds? (notice the slope is negative)
100
According to the graph the car is traveling at a constant speed over this time interval.
What is everywhere EXCEPT from about .7s to about .8s? The areas where the graph is flat shows constant speed.
100
According to the graphs, this object is NOT accelerating.
What is a? notice that the value for acceleration is zero.
100
A flat horizontal line on this graph means that the object remains a constant location.
What is position vs time or distance vs time graph?
200
Based on the graph below, the object has traveled this far after 6 seconds.
What is 1.0 m? notice from time 0 to 5 seconds it has only traveled from 0.2 to 1 meter (0.8 meters total), from 5 to 6 seconds it travels an additional 0.2 m so (0.7 + 0.2 = 1 meter) the trick here is to pay attention to the start and end points don't just assume everything starts and ends at zero :)
200
Based on the graph the object's displacement is
What is -27m? notice that it started at 3 m and on the return trip went 27 meters past its starting position or 27 meters left of where it started.
200
According to the graph the object is traveling at zero meters per second at this time(s).
What are 0 seconds and 9 seconds?
200
According to this set of graphs the object's acceleration is
What is 1 m/s^2?
200
A curved line on this graph means that the object is accelerating.
What is position vs time or distance versus time graph?
300
Based on the graph what is the object's displacement in 7 seconds is____ m
What is 0.3 m? Notice it starts at 0.2 m and ends at 0.5 meters. Displacement is straight line distance between start and end so only 0.3 m displaced from its starting location.
300
According to the graph the bicyclist is traveling the fastest during this section.
What is section E to F? We are looking for the steepest section of graph.
300
According to the graph the object is slowing down during this time interval.
What is 2 to 3 seconds? Be careful over the 3 to 3.5 second time interval the object is traveling in the negative direction and speeding up.
300
True or False. All of the graphs show an object which is accelerating for at least part of their journey.
What is True? Note we will not be testing over graphs b and d since the acceleration is not constant in either of these.
300
A flat horizontal line on this graph means that the object has a constant acceleration.
What is an acceleration vs time graph?
400
According to this graph object _________ is at rest.
What is object C?
400
According to the graph, this object has traveled the greatest distance at 2 seconds.
What is the green object? notice it has gone 40 km at 2 seconds and the red object has only gone 20 km at that same time
400
According to the graph the object is changing directions at this time(s). (this is a bonus question - take your time and think about it)
What is a little over 30 seconds? We are looking for the transition between a positive velocity and a negative velocity? From 24 to 30 seconds we have a positive velocity but are slowing down. A little after thirty seconds we come to a brief stop and then have a negative velocity (i.e. we are traveling in the opposite direction). If you got this one you are on fire... If you didn't keep practicing and don't stress this is an Honors Physics Question. Just seeing if you are practicing :) You can get this one too :)
400
A student turned in their lab with the following image indicating that the object was accelerating. Based on what we have studied the y axis should have been labeled _____ and the x axis should have been labeled.
What is position or displacement and time?
400
A diagonal line on this graph means that the object has a constant acceleration.
What is velocity vs time?
500
According to this graph object(s) _______ is accelerating throughout the entire time of travel.
What is object C? Careful, object D starts out with a flat graph, indicating it is at rest and then it accelerates.
500
According to the graph the red object has a constant speed of __________ km/hr.
What is 10 km/hr? Total distance 50 km total time 5 hours 50/5 = 10 km/hr
500
According to the graph the object is accelerating at _______ m/s^2 during the first 2 seconds.
What is 5 m/s^2? Recall that acceleration is the change in velocity over time. The final velocity at 2 seconds is 10 m/s, the initial velocity at 0 seconds is 0 m/s. So we have 10/2 or 5 m/s^2
500
A student turned in a graph and indicated the object had a constant acceleration. Based on what we have studied what should the y and x axis labels be?
What is velocity (y- axis) and time (x-axis)?
500
You are given the following graph of an object's motion, the shape of the velocity vs time graph will look like.
What is a diagonal line?
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