Units
Distance
Meters (m)
100 centimeters = x meters
x = 1 meter
A car drives a distance of 10 meters in 3 seconds. How fast was the car traveling?
v = 3.33 m/s
An object is launched straight up into the air. What will the final velocity be at it's maximum height?
0 m/s
This wacky-haired physicist released his most famous paper, detailing E = mc^2, when he was just 26 years old
Albert Einstein
Velocity
Meters per second (m/s)
30 seconds = x minutes
x = 0.5 minutes
A softball is accelerated at a rate of 4 m/s^2 along a table. If the softball started from rest, how fast was it going after 3 seconds?
vf = 12 m/s
A ball falls from rest and lands on the ground after 3 seconds. What is the ball's final velocity just before it hits the ground?
-29.43 m/s
This physicist, whose eponymous Three Laws govern much of physics, is famous for a tall tale whereby an apple falling on his head helped inspire his calculations for gravity.
Isaac Newton
Acceleration
Meters per second squared (m/s^2)
1 hour = x seconds
x = 3600 seconds
A car travels at 4 m/s before coming to a stop in 10 meters. What was the cars acceleration?
-0.8 m/s^2
A cannon is fired off a cliff with a horizontal velocity of 3 m/s. If the ball falls down a cliff that is 40 meters high, how far will the cannon fall for?
2.86 s
This physicist, who had to be buried in a lead coffin due to the amount of radioactivity she was exposed to in life, is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two fields: Chemistry, and Physics
Marie Curie
Angle
Degrees
20 ft = x meters (1 ft = 0.30 meters)
x = 6 meters
A roller coaster, traveling with an initial speed of 15 m/s, decelerates uniformly at –7.0 m/s^2 to a full stop. Approximately how far does the roller coaster travel during its deceleration?
16 m
A cannon is fired with a launch velocity of 20 m/s at an angle of 25 degrees above the horizon. How high will the cannonball be at it's maximum height?
3.64 m
This physicist, along with Kepler and Brache, was one of the pioneers of astrophysics. Namely, he invented the telescope, which helped him conclude that the earth revolves around the sun
Mass
Kilograms
50,000 cm = x km
x = 0.5 km
A distance vs time graph such as the one shown represents a object moving with ______ acceleration
Positive/constant
An object is allowed to fall freely near the surface of a planet. The object falls 54 meters in the first 3.0 seconds after it is released. The acceleration due to gravity on that planet is
12 m/s^2
This physicist, whose famous kite flight led to the conclusion that lightning was made of charged particles, standardized the "positive" and "negative" notation with electricity.
Benjamin Franklin