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U2 Part 2 Accelerated Motion: Review Sheet

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time (s)
1. Use the graph above to answer the following questions:
a. Give a written description to describe the motion of this object.
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b. Draw the motion map for the object. Include velocity and acceleration vectors.

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acc: astart
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c. Determine the instantaneous velocity of the object at t = 2 s and explain how you did it.
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d. Assume the initial velocity was 10 m/s, determine the acceleration of the object.
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velocity (m/s)

time (s)
e. Sketch a corresponding velocity time graph for the
graph above.

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2. Use the graph to answer the following questions.

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a. Describe the motion of the object. 15

velocity (m/s)
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0 t (s)
0 5 10

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b. Determine the acceleration of the object from the graph.

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c. Shade the portion of the graph that represents the displacement of the object from 2 to 6 seconds.

d. Calculate the velocity of the object at 2 seconds and at 6 seconds. (No you are not allowed to
just take the values off the graph.)
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e. Calculate the object's displacement from 2 to 6 seconds.

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3. A car, initially at rest, accelerates at a constant rate of 4.0 m/s for 6 s. How fast will the car be
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traveling at t = 6 s?
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4. A tailback initially running at a velocity of 5.0 m/s becomes very tired and slows down at a
uniform rate of 0.25 m/s . How fast will he be running after going an additional 10 meters?
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5. Draw a motion map along the ramp for the motion of the ball when released from rest.
vo = 0 cm/s

x = 0 cm

x = 25 cm x = 50 cm

6. Draw a motion map along the ramp for the motion of the ball when released from rest.
vo = 0 cm/s

x = 50 cm x = 0 cm

x = 25 cm

7. Using the graph compare the following quantities for objects A and B. Is A > B, A < B, or A = B.
position (m)

B
A

3
time (s)

AB
a. Displacement from 0 to 3 s ___________ How do you know? Theybeginandendatthesaneposition

A
b. Displacement from 0 to 1.5 s ___________
B
How do you know? AisnovingfasterthenB

AaB
c. Displacement from 1.5 to 3 s ___________ How do you know? BismovingfasterthenA

AB
d. Average velocity from 0 to 3 s ___________ How do you know? Theyhavethesanechangeinpositioninthe
sometime

AB
e. Average velocity from 0 to 1.5 s ___________ How do you know? Ahasagreaterdisplacement

ACB
f. Average velocity from 1.5 to 3 s ___________ How do you know?Bhasagreaterdisplacement

AaB
g. Instantaneous velocity at 3 s ___________ How do you know? Bhasasteeperslopeat3s

AB
h. Instantaneous velocity at 0 s ___________ How do you know? Ahasasteeperslopeats

i. If the motion of B is uniformly accelerated, at what time will both graphs have exactly the
same slope? Explain.
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 8. For each of the position vs time graphs shown below, draw the corresponding v vs t, a vs t ,
and motion map.

position
position

position
time time time
+ + +

velocity
velocity

velocity

time time time

- - -

+ + +

acceleration
acceleration

acceleration

time time time

- - -

vel: vel: vel:

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9. An object is said to be in free fall when it’s falling from some height towards the floor. Y can
use the motion equations to model the motion of a free falling object. You just need to know the
acceleration of gravity, usually called “g”. It is the acceleration of everything falling freely on
earth, and it is 9.8 m/s directed towards the center of the earth (we usually call this direction
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“down”). If a kid drops a stone from a cliff to the sea, the stone will have no initial velocity
(unless, for example the kid throws it instead of just letting it drop). If the cliff is 18 m high, how
much time will it take the stone to reach the sea level?

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