Scalar or Vector?
Graphs
Displacement, Velocity and Uniform Motion
Acceleration and Non-Uniform Motion
Definitions
100
Distance.
What is a scalar?
100
The slope of a Position-Time graph represents this.
What is velocity?
100
See Diagram #1 What is the person's distance travelled between 0 and 15s?
What is 15m? -----0-10s (6m) + 10-15s (9m) =15m
100
The acceleration due to gravity
What is -9.8m/s^2
100
The term describing the rate of change in position over a time interval is this.
What is Average Velocity?
200
Velocity
What is a vector
200
Refer to Diagram #2 The acceleration over the first 20s is this.
What is 0.4m/s^2?
200
See Diagram #1 The person's DISPLACEMENT
What is -3m. -----Δd = df - di ----------- (-7m) - (-4m) = -3m
200
A car is travelling at 30km/h [W] when the driver steps on the gas. This is an example of ____________ acceleration.
What is negative acceleration?
200
30km/h converted to m/s is this.
What is 8.3m/s?
300
Displacement
What is a Vector?
300
Refer to Diagram #3. The average velocity between 2 and 5s is this.
What is -6.7m/s?
300
A pitcher delivers a fastball travelling at 40m/s toward a batter who is 18m away. The amount of time it takes for the ball to reach the batter is this.
What is .45s?
300
A hockey puck sliding across the ice at constant speed is an example of _______ acceleration.
What is Zero (0)?
300
Acceleration that is opposite to the direction of motion is called this.
What is Deceleration?
400
Acceleration
What is a Vector?
400
The acceleration of the object between 20 and 50s is this.
What is Zero (0).
400
A boy runs 4km [E] in 0.4h and then another 6km [E] in .6h. His average velocity is this.
What is 10km/h?
400
A golf ball with an acceleration of -1.6m/s^2 rolled across the golf course. The golf ball's initial velocity was 3.2m/s and it took this long to come to a stop.
What is 2s?
400
A vehicle travelling around a corner at a constant velocity is considered to be ____________ motion.
What is Non-Uniform.
500
Time
What is a Scalar
500
The total distance travelled by the object in Diagram #3 is this.
What is 140m?
500
A boy lives 300m [W] of the playground. He begins running at 5m/s [E] and continues for 2min. His position in relation to the playground at the end of 2minutes is this.
What is 300m [E]?
500
A tennis ball is thrown upward with an initial velocity of +18m/s. The tennis ball's velocity after 4s is this.
What is -21.2m/s?
500
When the velocity and acceleration of an object are both negative, this happens to the speed of the object.
What is speed increases?
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