Acceleration Problems
Vocabulary
Acceleration Basics
Miscellaneous
100
What does a negative sign mean when calculating acceleration?
What is deceleration or the car slowing down.
100
Movement from one place to another over time in a certain direction.
What is velocity
100
What does a speed-time graph tells about?
What is acceleration.
100
What is the basic unit associated with acceleration?
What is m/s2
200
A skateboarder traveling at 7.0 meters per second rolls to a stop at the top of a ramp in 3.0 seconds. What is the skateboarder’s acceleration?
What is -2.44 m/s2
200
Movement from one place to another over time.
What is speed
200
What a distance-time graph tells about.
What is speed
200
how is acceleration calculated?
What is change in speed divided by the time
300
A cyclist accelerates at a rate of 7.0 m/s2. How long will it take the cyclist to reach a speed of 18 m/s?
What is 2.57 s
300
The rate of change in the speed of an object.
What is acceleration
300
What happens to the acceleration as a cart rolls down a ramp?
What is increase
300
What is the acceleration of gravity during free fall?
What is 9.8 m/s2
400
After traveling for 6.0 seconds, a runner reaches a speed of 10 m/s. What is the runner’s acceleration?
What is 1.67m/s2
400
Acceleration in a negative direction.
What is deceleration
400
These two things can change the acceleration.
What is speed and direction
400
What is the acceleration of the car?
What is 6 m/s2
500
A car traveling at a speed of 30.0 m/sec encounters an emergency and comes to a complete stop. How much time will it take for the car to stop if its rate of deceleration is -4.0 m/s2?
What is 7.5 s
500
Two words that are almost synonyms of each other except that one includes a direction.
What is velocity and speed.
500
What is the acceleration of the car?
What is 12 m/s2