Physics R
Date: __________________
1. A cheetah goes from rest to 60 miles per hour (26.8 m/s) in 3 seconds. Calculate the acceleration of
the cheetah.
Kinematics 2
Kinematics Equations
How to solve a Physics problem:
What is the question asking for?
List the given quantities with units
Equation
Substitution with units
Solution with units
Does the answer make sense?
2. A racecar is travelling at 50 m/s. It decelerates at a rate of 3 m/s*s until it comes to a stop.
How far does it take the car to stop?
What is the question asking for?
What are the known quantities?
What equation relates the known quantities to what is being asked?
What units should the answer have? Substitute and solve
3. A train accelerates from rest at a rate of 2 m/s*s, for a time of 20 seconds. How much distance
does the train cover?
What is the question asking for?
What are the known quantities?
What equation relates the known quantities to what is being asked?
What units should the answer have? Substitute and solve
Sometimes, two steps are required to solve a problem
4. A car traveling on a straight road at 5.0 meters per second accelerates uniformly to a speed of 20.0
meters per second in 12.0 seconds. What is the total distance traveled by the car in this 12.0-second time
interval?
What is the question asking for?
What are the known quantities?
Does any equation directly relate the known quantities to what the question is asking for?
What can you calculate from the known quantities to help this situation? What equation(s) can you then
use?
5. A rocket car is travelling at 150 m/s. The drag chute is deployed, and slows the car at a
constant 5 m/s*s. How far will the car travel before it comes to rest?
What is the question asking for?
What are the known quantities?
What equation relates the known quantities to what is being asked? What SI units should the answer
have?
6. A car starting from rest accelerates at a rate of 3.5 m/s*s. How much time does it take the car
to cover a distance of 400 m?
What is the question asking for?
What are the known quantities?
What equation relates the known quantities to what is being asked? What SI units should the answer
have?
7. An object accelerates at a rate of 6 m/s*s West for 4 seconds, until it reaches a velocity of 4 m/s
West. What was the object’s initial velocity?
What is the question asking for?
What are the known quantities?
What equation relates the known quantities to what is being asked? What SI units should the answer
have?
8. A car accelerates from rest to a speed of 15 m/s in 5 seconds. How far does it travel?
What is the question asking for?
What are the known quantities?
Does any equation directly relate the known quantities to what the question is asking for?
What can you calculate from the known quantities to help this situation? What equation(s) can you then
use?
9. A jet plane traveling at 120 m/s lands on a runway and slows down at a rate of -4 m/s2. How long
must the runway be for the plane to come to rest?
Graphing Motion Part 2
How do you calculate the slope of a line?
What would the slope of a distance vs time graph represent?
What would the slope of a displacement vs time graph represent?
What would the slope of a velocity vs time graph represent?
You could memorize all of these, or you could just remember that slope=
Position (or distance or displacement) vs time graph
10. During which intervals is the
object stopped?
Displacement (m)
Position vs Time
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11. During which interval is the
object‟s position changing the
fastest?
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Time (s)
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12. What is the object‟s velocity
during this time?
13. During which interval does the object
have the highest velocity?
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Displacement (m)
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14. What is its velocity during this time?
15. What is the velocity from 8-9 s?
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Time (s)
Velocity (or speed) vs Time Graph
Slope
Area
16. What is the acceleration from
0-4 seconds?
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17. What is the displacement from
2-4 seconds?
Velocity (m/s)
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2
0
0
2
4
6
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18. What is the velocity from
9-10 seconds?
19. When is the velocity zero?
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Time (s)
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Car A solid, Car B dashed
20. What is the acceleration of car
A from 0-4 seconds?
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Velocity (m/s)
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21. What distance does car A cover
from 0-7 seconds?
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22. What is the acceleration of car
B from 0-7 seconds?
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Time (s)
23. What is the acceleration for car B from 7-10 seconds?
24. What distance does car B travel from 4-7 seconds?
25. What is the velocity of car B at 5 seconds?
26. What is the displacement of car A over the entire 14 seconds?
27. The graph below represents the relationship between
speed and time for an object moving along a straight
line.
What is the total distance traveled by the object during
the first 4 seconds?
1. 5 m
2. 20 m
3. 40 m
4. 80 m
Use the following graph for #28-29
28. What is the acceleration of the car at t=5.0 seconds?
1. 0.0 m/s2
2. 2.0 m/s2
3. 2.5 m/s2
4. 10 m/s2
29. What is the total distance traveled by the car during
this 6-second interval?
1. 10 m
2. 20 m
3. 40 m
4. 60 m
Free-Fall
What happens to an object as it falls?
„g‟ is different on different planets
Earth
Moon
Jupiter
Why do some objects fall slower than others?
What if objects were dropped in a vacuum?
What happens when I drop an object?
Time (s)
Velocity (m/s)
t=0
Distance (m)
Acceleration (m/s2)
t=1
t=2
t=3
t=4
When I drop an object, it starts:
Motion graph for a dropped object in free fall
Displacement vs. Time
Velocity vs. Time
Accel vs. Time
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(Ignore air resistance for all problems)
30. I drop a penny off the Empire State Building, which is 448.7m tall. How much time will it take
until the penny hits an unsuspecting pedestrian?
What is the initial velocity of the penny?
What is the acceleration of the penny?
What is the displacement of the penny (start-to-finish)?
What is the question asking for?
31. Mr. Vigneaux decides to jump out of an airplane from an altitude of 4000 m. How fast is he going
when his parachute (hopefully) opens at an altitude of 1000 m?
32. An astronaut lands on Planet X and drops a marble from a height of 2 m. The marble hits the
ground 3.2 seconds later. What is the acceleration due to gravity on Planet X, where the astronaut loses
his marbles?
33. A helicopter drops a “care package” above a foreign country. The parachute on the “care package”
is designed to open when the “care package” is traveling at 75 m/s. How much time will elapse between
the “care package” dropping and the parachute opening?
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2
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Velocity (m/s)
34. The velocity-time graph shows the
velocity of an object dropped on the moon
of Planet X. What is the acceleration due
to gravity on this moon?
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-8
-10
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Time (s)
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35. a) Mr. Vigneaux drops an egg off the school building (11m tall) onto a student who failed the last
exam, but he has bad aim and he misses. How long until the egg hits the ground?
b) How fast is the egg moving when it hits the ground?
c) What is the speed of the egg in miles per hour? (1 mile = 1600 m)
When an object is dropped, what is the initial velocity of the object?
What if the object is thrown downward?
What if the object is thrown upward?
36. A cat is thrown downward off a 125 m tall building with a speed of 10 m/s.
a) What is the initial velocity of the cat?
b) What is the acceleration of the cat?
c) How fast is the cat going the instant it hits the ground?
37. A cannon fires a shot directly upward at 50 m/s.
a) What is the initial velocity of the cannonball?
b) What is the acceleration of the cannonball?
c) What is the speed of the cannonball at the instant it hits its highest point?
(This question is important!!!)
d) Create a motion graph that shows the ball going up and down. Circle the instant it hits the peak
Displacement vs. Time
Velocity vs. Time
Accel vs. Time
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e) How much time does it take to reach this peak?
f) How much total time does the cannonball spend in the air?
38. A coin is tossed vertically upward (no air resistance). (a) Describe what happens to the velocity over
the entire course of its path in the air (b) does the acceleration increase, decrease or remain constant
while in the air?
39. A pebble is dropped down a well and hits the water 1.25 sec later. Determine the distance from the
top of the well to the water below.
40. A ball is thrown vertically upward, what are the velocity and acceleration at the peak where it
reaches its maximum altitude.
41. A cannon ball is launched directly upwards at an initial speed of 17.5 m/s. (a) What maximum
height does it reach and (b) how long is it in the air for over its whole up and down trip.
42. A student throws a baseball vertically upward and then catches it. If vertically upward is considered
to be the positive direction, which graph best represents the relationship between velocity and time for
the baseball? [Neglect friction.]
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Review Checklist
Use equations to determine distance; displacement; speed; velocity; acceleration; or time.
1. How far does an object travel if it starts from rest and accelerates at a rate of 2.0 meters per second2
for 6.5 seconds?
2. What is the final speed of a cart that begins with a velocity of +3.0 meters per second if it accelerates
at a rate of +1.5 meters per second2 while traveling +25 meters?
3. At what rate does an object accelerate if it changes its speed from 3.0 meters per second to 5.0 meters
per second while traveling a distance of 4.0 meter?
4. How long does it take for an object to reach a velocity of 2.0 meters per second north if it begins
with a velocity of 8.0 meters per second south and accelerates north at a rate of 4.0 meters per second2?
5. A race car starting from rest accelerates uniformly at 4.9 m/s2. What is the car‟s speed after it has
traveled 120 meters?
6. A car initially traveling at a speed of 16 meters per second accelerates uniformly at a rate of 2.9 m/s2
for 12 seconds. What distance does the car travel?
Interpret graphs of distance or displacement vs. time. Calculate speed/velocity from a
distance/displacement graph. Interpret graphs of speed or velocity vs. time. Calculate acceleration from
a speed/velocity graph. Calculate distance/displacement from a speed/velocity graph.
7. When is this object moving fastest? What is its speed during
this interval?
8. What is the speed of the object at t=8 s?
9. What is the speed of the object from 9-10 s?
10. During what intervals is the object not moving?
11. What is the speed of this object at t=3 seconds?
12. What is the speed of this object from 1-2 seconds?
13. When does the object have the highest speed?
What is it?
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14. When is this object not moving?
15. What is the speed of the object from 1-4 seconds?
16. How much distance does the object travel from 0-4 seconds?
17. What is the acceleration of this object from 0-2 seconds?
18. What is the acceleration of this object from 2-3 seconds?
19. What is the displacement from 0-4 seconds?
20. When is the object not moving?
21. What is the acceleration of the object from 3-4 seconds?
22. What is the acceleration of the object from 4-5 seconds?
Explain the behavior of objects in free-fall (in the absence of air resistance.). Understand the terms
“dropped” and “maximum height”.
23. What speed will a ball reach if it falls from rest for 3.0 seconds?
24. How far will a dropped object have fallen after 2.0 seconds?
25. What maximum height will an object reach if it thrown directly upward with a speed of 15 meters
per second? How long will it take to reach this height?
26. What is the height of an object that is thrown upward with a speed of 20 meters per second 1.5
seconds after it is thrown?
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27. An object is thrown directly upward with a speed of 25 meters per second. How long will it take to
come back to the position from which it was released?
28. How long does it take for an object that is dropped from the top of a 45 meter high building to reach
the ground?
The exam will be comprehensive. Go over the review checklist in Kinematics 1 and Physics Skills also.
Answers to Review Checklist
1. 42.3 m
2. 9.2 m/s
3. 2 m/s2
4. 2.5 s
5. 34.3 m/s
6. 401 m
7. 3-4 s, 3 m/s
8. 0 m/s
9. 2 m/s
10. 1-3, 4-5, 6-9 s
11. 0 m/s
12. 2 m/s
13. 7-8s, 5 m/s
14. 0s, 8-10s
15. 2 m/s
16. 7 m
17. 1 m/s/s
18. 0 m/s/s
19. 5 m
20. 0s, 4s, 8-10s
21. -2 m/s/s
22. -1 m/s/s
23. 29.4 m/s
24. 19.6 m
25. 11.5 m, 1.53 s
26. 19 m
27. 5.1 s
28. 3.03 s
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