Basic Terms
Velocity
Kinematic Graphs
Acceleration
Potpourri
100

The change in position of a body

What is displacement?


100

The quantity of  an object's change in position divided by the time interval.

What is velocity?

100

A horizontal line on a position time graph indicates....

What is a stationary body or position remains constant over time?

100

An object speeds up steadily from rest to 15 m/s in 3.0 s. The object's acceleration is _____

What is 5.0 m/s/s?

100

The software we use for physics labs is known as?

What is graphical analysis?

200

Displacement takes into account _______, distance does not take this into account.

What is direction?

200

An object travels at a constant velocity of -35 m/s for 6.0 seconds.  How far does it travel?

What is -210 m?

200

A linear graph with a negative slope on a position time graph indicates...

What is an body traveling at constant velocity, heading south or west or backwards?

200

A cross country runner moving at 7 m/s, steadily slows down to she is at rest.  If this takes 2.0 s, then her acceleration is ?

What is -3.5 m/s/s?

200

The date of the 11th/12th grade dance this fall. 

What is October 25th?

300

The total displacement of an object travels 12 m north, then 15 m south.  

What is -3m or 3m, south?

300

An object is travelling at a constant velocity for a total of 21 seconds. In this time, the object travels 2500 m south. What is the velocity of the object?

What is -120 m/s?

300

A curve or parabola on a position time graph in the first quadrant indicates...

What is a body whose speed is increasing?

300

A car travelling 24 m/s speeds up at a rate of 4.0 m/s/s for 3.2 s.  The final speed of the car is?

What is 36.8 m/s?

300

The types of pets Mrs. Talley has.

What are a dog and a cat?

400

A person walks 4km east, then 6 km west.  Find the person's displacement.

What is -2 km or 2 km, west?

400

Sammy walks 6.0 km north, then he walks 8.0 km south.  The walk takes him 2.0 hr.  Is his average velocity positive, negative or zero?

What is negative?

400

A horizontal line above the time axis on a velocity time graph indicates....

What is a body travelling at a constant positive velocity?

400

A student drops a ball from the roof of a building.  It takes 2.0 s for the ball to reach the ground. How high is the building?

The building is 20 m high.

400

The name the PhET simulation that involves a dapper gentleman walking and running.

What is the Moving Man?

500

A quantity that has magnitude and direction is a ___ quantity.

What is a vector?

500

A physics buggy travels at a constant speed for 127 cm in 2.8s.  Determine the buggy's velocity in m/s.

What is 0.45 m/s?

500

A line with a negative slope on a velocity time graph.

What is a body whose speed is slowing down, at a constant rate?

500

A student launches a cannonball into the air vertically at a speed of 45 m/s.  What is the cannonball's total flight time?

The cannonball is in the air for 9.0 s. 

500

The names of Mrs. Talley's pets.

What are Omelette and Taters?

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