Pre-test for self-teaching unit on motion

Answer the following questions as well as you are able to. Show all working.
1. A car travels 60 km in 30 minutes. What is its average speed in km/h (kilometres per hour)?
2. A bus travels at a speed of 5 m/s. How far does it travel in 2 minutes?
3. Change 5 m/s into km/h.

40 m

4. A man runs around a rectangular track with sides of 40 m and 30 m.

He takes 60 seconds to run around half of the track, starting at corner A.
30 m
a . What is the distance he has travelled and his displacement after
completing half of the track?
b. What is his average speed and average velocity after completing
half of the track?
c. What is his average speed and average velocity after running once completely around the track in
2minutes?
5.

A car travelling at 10 m/s slows down to 3 m/s over a time of 4 s. What is its acceleration?

6.

A car travelling at 20 m/s accelerates at 2 m/s2 for 3 s.

a . What is its final speed?
b. How far does it travel in this time?

7.

A ball is thrown upwards at 16 m/s. Use g = 10 m/s2 .

After 2 s
a . what is its speed?
b. how far has it travelled and what is its displacement?

8.

This velocity-time graph shows the motion of a car over a time of 6 s.

a . Describe the motion over the 6 s.
b. Find the distance travelled during the first 3 s.
c. What is the acceleration at t = 1 s?
d. What is the acceleration at t = 5 s?

Magan Savant and Steve Udy

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Printed on 2/7/04