Vocab
Formulas
Distance and Displacement
Speed
Metric Conversion
100

The total path an object has travelled. 

Distance

100

Speed formula.

Speed=distance/time

100

John walked 6 meters East, then turned around and walked 2 meters west. What is John’s distance.

8 meters.

100

Trevor Rogers pitches a fastball that travels 37 meters in 2 seconds. How fast was his pitch? 

18.5 meters/second

100

An eagle flies roughly 10,000 kilometers per day, convert this to meters.

10,000,000 meters.

200

Change in an objects position defined as a straight line from its starting point to its ending point.

Displacement

200

Distance formula.

Distance=(speed)(time)

200

Sally runs 2 laps around the 400 meter track outside the school. What is sallys displacement?

0 meters.

200

Lewis Hamilton has a big race. He drives 98.7 mph for 30 minutes (0.5 hour) around the track and finishes first. How far did he drive?

49.35 miles

200

An American Football field is approximately 91 meters long. Convert from meters to millimeters. 

91000 millimeters

300

Rate at which an object moves without direction. 

Speed 

300

Velocity formula.

Velocity=displacement/time

300

Peter walked 4.5 meters west, then walks 6 meters north. What is peters displacement? (Hint… you’re solving for the hypotenuse).

Peters displacement is 7.5 meters NW.
300

Jayden Daniel’s throws a football 64 meters down the field to Deebo Samuel Sr. at 27 meters/second. How much time did it take for the ball to reach Deebo?

2.4 seconds.

300

A tennis player drank .01 decaliters of Gatorade during her tennis match. Convert to centiliters. 

10 Centiliters

400

Rate of change of an objects displacement (includes speed and direction).

Velocity

400

Acceleration formula.

Acceleration=(final velocity)-(initial velocity)/total time

400

Lamar Jackson runs a total distance of 52 meters in 5 seconds. However, his displacement is 50 meters. What is Lamar’s velocity?

10 meters/second

400

A train travels down a track at 45 mph for 82 miles. How many hours has the train been driving for, and how long will the train have been driving for when it reaches 90 miles?

1.8 hours…2 hours.

400

Wally buys 87 grams of salt from the store, his recipe calls for 15 kg of salt. How much more salt does Wally need to buy?

14.9 kilograms

500

Rate of change of an objects velocity.

Acceleration

500

Pythagorean theorem. 

a^2+b^2=c^2

500

Sally runs a marathon (40.56km) in 3.5 hours. She finishes the race at her starting point, what is her average velocity for the race?

0 km/hr

500
Jane drives 20 miles from her house to get to school, it takes 30 minutes (0.5 hours). After school she drives 32 miles to work, it takes 1 hour. After work she drives 45 miles home, it takes 45 minutes (0.75 hours)… what is her average speed of the 3 trips?

44 mph

500

The baker bakes a cake with 47 grams of chocolate. She realizes after its in the oven that her cake was only supposed to have 47 milligrams of chocolate! How much extra chocolate did she put in the cake (answer in mg)?

46,953 milligrams of chocolate.