Speed
What is the letter for speed in physics?
s
A leaf was blown by the wind and went left 20 meters. The wind picked up again and blew the leaf to the right another 5 meters. How many meters did the leaf travel?
25m
Can displacement be negative?
yes
What is the unit for velocity?
m/s
What is the letter for acceleration?
a
How do you calculate speed?
If a bird flew west 100 meters then east 117 meters, how many meters did the bird fly?
217m
What is the letter/symbol for displacement?
delta x
Does "Vo" stand for initial velocity or final velocity?
What is the unit for acceleration?
m/s^2
What is the unit for speed in physics?
m/s
A football player starts at the 17 yard line. He runs 9 yards and stops at the 26 to get the first down. How many yards did he travel?
9 yards
A leaf fell 6 meters from a tree. What is the displacement?
-6m
What is the formula for velocity in physics?
I kick soccer ball into the air. What is my acceleration?
-10m/s^2
I just walked ten meters in five seconds. How many meters per second am I walking?
2m/s
Jack and Kyler are playing a board game. Jack rolls the die and lands on space 7. That space tells him to go double the distance, and then and it is Kyler's turn. When Jack goes again, he rolls a 3 and lands on the restart space. How many spaces did Jack travel in all?
A ball rolled to the left for 17 meters then came to a stop. It then rolled to the right for 18 meters then back left for 1 meter. What is the displacement?
0m
If I kick a soccer ball north and it covers 20 meters in the span of 10 seconds, what is my velocity?
2m/s
How can you make the acceleration positive when calculating a problem with something going straight up into the air?
trick question: you can't
I am jogging and I just covered 50 yards in 10 seconds. How many meters per second am I running?
5m/s
A falcon flies west 10 meters then stops and rests. He falls asleep and falls of the branch and then falls 5 meters before picking himself up and flies another 23 meters east. A plane hits him and he falls another 17 meters before hitting the ground and he goes in his nest. How many meters did he travel in all?
55m
A car is driving and goes 20 miles east. It then goes 15 miles north followed by 5 miles east. After that, It goes back 3 miles west then turns back to go another 7 miles east. What is the displacement?
44 miles
A bird flies south for 50 meters then flies even faster in the same direction for another 70 meters. This took 6 seconds. What is the velocity?
-20m/s
A car is moving at 10m/s. It speeds up to 20m/s in 5 seconds. What is the acceleration?
2m/s^2