STD Calculations
Motion
Graph Calc
Speed
Misc.
100

Ms. Israel walks 36 meters in 9 seconds. Calculate her speed.

What is 4 m/s?

100

What type of motion does a straight, diagonal line represent?

What is constant speed?

100

What is on the y-axis of a distance-time graph?

What is distance?

100

What is the formula for speed?

What is the distance/time?

100

Calvin drove southeast at 80 miles per hour. Is this speed or velocity?

What is velocity?

200

Andy is going 70 meters east and it takes him 20 minutes to get there. What is his average speed?

3.5 meters/minutes

200

What type of motion does a horizontal line represent?

What is stopped?

200

What is on the x-axis of a distance-time graph?

What is time?

200

How do you know you're given speed in a problem?

What is having a unit divided by a unit? Ex: meters/second

200

What is an example of a unit of speed?

What is m/s, mph, yards/minute, etc...?

300

Sarah is going at a speed of 20 m/s and traveled 58 meters. Calculate his time.

What is 2.9 seconds?

300


What type of motion is occurring from 1.5 to 2.25 seconds?

What is returning to start?

300

From 0 to 2 seconds, what is the speed?

What is 10?

300

At which letter was the object moving the FASTEST?

What is D?

300

How do you use the formula triangle?

What is covering up what you are looking for and use the other two variables to solve?


400

It took Angel 87 years to to travel the whole country. He traveled at a speed of 4.2 miles/year. Calculate how many miles he traveled.

What is 365.4 miles?

400

Compare the motion represented by these two lines.

What is the red line is at a constant speed and the black line starts at a constant speed, stops, and goes to a constant speed again?

400

From 0 to 10 seconds, what is the average speed?

What is 14?

400

Ms. Israel went 32 meters in 8 seconds, and Mrs. Sparks went 28 meters in 6 seconds. Who went the FASTER speed and WHAT was their average speed?

Who is Mrs. Sparks at 4.67 m/second?

400


What is the overall displacement of this graph?

What is 0?

500

It took Robbie is 2.3 minutes to drive to a sandwich shop and it took Holland 4.4 minutes to drive to a sandwich shop. However, Robbie is 3.4 miles from the sandwich shop and and Holland is 5.2 miles from the sandwich shop. Who went at a FASTER average speed to get to the sandwich shop and WHAT was her average speed?

Who is Robbie at 1.48 mile/min?

500

Explain what is going on in each of the 5 steps of this graph? (the motion occurring)

What is:

1. Constant Speed

2. Stopped

3. Constant Speed

4. Stopped

5. Return to start

500

What is the average speed of the graph?

What is 0.67?

500

Calculate the average speed of the blue line?

What is 5 m/s?

500

When is our test?

What is tomorrow?
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