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Displacement, Velocity & Acceleration

1. An airplane is 310 kilometers North East of an Air Traffic Control (ATC)
tower. Three hours later it is 500 kilometers South West of the tower. What is the
average velocity of the plane?

2. Chris runs from the 30 yard line to the 80 yard line. Whats his
displacement?

3. Tim runs out of AA batteries & has to get more from the store so he can play
GTA 5. He is sitting on the couch when he looks over at the clock and sees that
the minute hand reads 15 minutes. Then he gets up & runs to the grocery store.
When he gets to store the minute hand reads 29 minutes & his velocity was 122
ft/min. What was tims average acceleration? If time ran a constant velocity of 122
ft/min, how far away was the store?

4. Abbey is flying a remote control airplane because shes awesome. She

decides to figure out the planes acceleration with a stopwatch. When the
stopwatch reads 15 s the plane is traveling 10 m/s East. When the stopwatch
reads 25 s, the plane is traveling 25 m/s East. What is the average acceleration?

5. Jasmine was playing in her backyard when she saw a squirrel. She decided
she wanted to keep it as a pet so she began chasing it and just when she had it
cornered, it climbed a tree. She climbed 8 stories (52 ft) from the ground in 12
minutes. What was her average velocity in ft/min?

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6. The horse racing record for a 2410 meter track is held by 2 horses--Fiddle
Isle and John Henry, who both ran the distance in 143 seconds. What was their
average speed?

7. A fishing boat is traveling 30 mi/hr West down the Ohio River at 6:08 pm. It
turns around and at 6:53 pm it is traveling 20 mi/hr East up the Ohio River. What
is the average acceleration of the boat?

8. An Olympic pool measures 50 m long. Adam starts at rest and is traveling

20 m/s at the end of his first lap when the clock reads 12 s. At the end of his
second lap his velocity is 18 m/s and the clock reads 40 s.
a. What was his average acceleration for the first lap? ***hint, the
first lap starts from rest.

b. What was his average acceleration for the second lap? ***hint,
the second lap starts with the end of the first lap.
9. You turn your car left. Are you accelerating? Why or why not?
10.
Joe runs 50 m away from a rabid dog. At 12 seconds his velocity is 5
m/s. After 8 seconds his velocity is 9 m/s. What is his average acceleration? Is he
speeding up or slowing down?

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11.
On May 29, 1988 Rick Mears won the Indy 500 in 3.45 hours. What
was his average speed (in mi/h) during the 500 mile race?

12.
Kaylie is rowing down the Mississippi River in a canoe starting 15 km
North of her campsite. After 4 hours of intense rowing she is 6 km South of her
campsite. What was her average velocity?

13.
Jack watches a thunderstorm from his window. He sees a flash of
lightning and then counts out 10 seconds before he hears the thunder. If sound
travels at 340 m/s, then how far away was the lightning (in meters)?

14.
The slowest animal ever found is a crab that lives in the Red Sea. It
travels with an average speed of 5.7 km/year. How many years would it take the
crab to travel 100 km?
15.
For a long time it was the dream of many runners to break the "4
minute mile". On July 2, 1988, Steve Crams of Great Britain ran a mile in 3.81
minutes. What was his average speed in miles/hour?

16.
A BMW M3 can accelerate from zero to 28 m/s in 5.6 seconds. What
is the car's acceleration?

17.
The peregrine falcon is the world's fastest bird and has been clocked
diving downward toward its prey at a constant velocity of 97.2 m/s. If falcon in a
full speed dive from a height of 100 meters approaches a rabbit, how much time
does the rabbit below have to consider its next move?

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18.
Katy Perry has some kids to corrupt but is having limousine trouble
with only 8 minutes until show time! She hails a cab and speeds off at 25 m/s
traveling 1000 meters North. She then stops at a stoplight for 1.5 minutes and
drives 1700 meters at a speed of 10 m/s to reach the theater. Does Katy reach
the theater in time?

19.
A torpedo fired from a submarine is propelled through the water with a
constant speed of 20 m/s and explodes upon impact with a target 2000 meters
away. If the sound of the impact is heard 101.4 seconds after the torpedo was
fired, then what is the speed of sound in the water?