Physical Quantities
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Velocity
Vocab
Random/Extra
100

What is the difference between scalar and vector quantities?

A scalar is just magnitude/quantity and vector is magnitude/quantity and direction

100
What is the difference between distance and displacement?
What is distance is the length of the path taken and displacement is the distance from start to finish (straight line).
100
Define speed, what are the units?
What is the distance traveled per unit of time. m/s
100
Define scalar.
What is a physical quantity with only magnitude.
100

What is the name of this class?

Conceptual Physics
200
Give 2 examples of vector quantities.
What is displacement, velocity, force, acceleration...
200

You went north 2 meters, west 2 meters, south 2 meters, and east 2 meters. What is your displacement?

0 meters.

200
Is speed a scalar or vector quantity? Why?
What is scalar because no direction.
200
Define speed.
What is the rate of change over a period of time.
200

Define Conceptual

Relating to or based on mental concepts.


300
Give 3 examples of scalar quantities.
What is speed, distance, mass, energy, temperature, length, volume...
300
Is displacement scalar or vector? Why?
What is vector because it has both a magnitude and direction.
300
What is the equation for speed and velocity?
What is speed= distance/ time // velocity= displacement/ time
300

Define acceleration.

Rate at which velocity changes with time, in terms of both speed and direction.

300

What is the force equation?

F=ma

400
After school Bam decided to go the bakery that was 5km for school, she had to walk north to get there. Is this a scalar or vector quantity? Why?
What is vector, because it has direction (north) and magnitude (5km)
400

You went north 2 meters, west 2 meters, south 2 meters, and east 2 meters. What is your displacement?

8 meters

400

The bird's flight took 300s, and the bird went 42 meters, find the bird's speed.

What is 0.14 m/s

400
Define displacement.
What is the distance in a straight line from start to finish.
400
What is the largest animal in the world?
What is blue whale
500

Tony was ran north 3 meters and west 5 meters. His distance was 8 meters. Is this scalar or vector? Why?

What is scalar, because only magnitude.

500

Shauna rode a bike 10m west and then turned North for 4m, then east for 3m, then north for 5m, then west 15m, then North for 16m and finally 22m East. What was her distance and displacement. 

What is Distance=75m Displacement= 22m North

500

It took the car 40s to travel 20 meter distance and the displacement was 15 meters. What is the car's velocity?

What is 0.375 m/s

500

A car accelerates from 5 m/s (Vi) to a speed of 20 m/s (Vf) in 0s to 5s (tf - ti = 5s). What is the average acceleration of the car?

3 m/s2

500

What is the smallest animal in the world?

Myxozoa (Parasitic Jellyfish)

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