Velocity
Distance and displacement
Acceleration
definitions
100
Alek walks 4 miles in 2 hours. What is his speed?
2 mi/hr
100
What is the bike's displacement?
5 m
100
Acceleration when a car starts from rest and reaches 10.0 m/s in 2.0 seconds
5.0 m/s2
100
displacement/time
velocity
200
A cat tracks a mouse slowly through tall grass 120 cm. It takes her 30 seconds. How fast was this game of cat and mouse?
4 cm/s
200
A horse runs around a race track that is 2.5 mi long. What is his displacement?
0 mi
200
Acceleration when a plane goes from 120 m/s to 90.0 m/s in 35 seconds
-0.86 m/s2
200
change in velocity/time
Acceleration
300
What is the person doing from 5-10 seconds?
Stopped/not moving
300
Dave walked 28 feet east, stopped and continued east for 32 more feet, turned and walked 18 feet west.
What is his displacement? Draw the vectors
42 ft
300
A motorcycle goes from 60 km/min to rest in 1 min
-60 km/min2?
300
The shortest distance from your starting point
displacement
400
A plane flies overhead at 550 mi/hr. In 5 hours, how far has it flown?
2,750 mi
400
Vanessa rode her horse 2 miles east, 4 miles north, 2 miles west, 4 miles south.
What is her displacement? What is her distance traveled? Draw the vectors
Displacement: 0 mi
Distance: 12 mi
400
A runner goes from a 4.0 m/s pace to a 1 m/s pace. Select the graph that best matches this description.
C
400
The points you use when "at rest"
(0,0)
500
What is the speed of the ant from 1-3 seconds?
20 m/s
500
Diego drove 7 miles east to Chachos, then turned around and went 13 miles west back home.
Draw the vectors. What is the distance and displacement?
Distance: 20 mi
Displacement: 6 mi
500
What is the acceleration from B-C?
-6.7 m/s2
500
Units for the slope of this graph:
m/min2