Kinematics

Kinematics

Corvino 2020

Multiple Choice

A person already walking at 1 m/s takes 2 seconds to reach a top speed of 5 m/s. What is their acceleration?

• 1 m/s^2

• 2 m/s^2

• 4 m/s^2

• 10 m/s^2

Multiple Choice

Which graph shows a person jogging away at a constant pace?

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

What is this graph representing?

• Constant Speed
• Acceleration (speeding up)
• Deceleration (slowing down)
• No motion

Multiple Choice

In the velocity time graph above, what does the section of the graph below the time axis refers to?

• Object travelling downwards

• Object travelling in opposite direction to initial motion

• Object travelling upwards

Multiple Choice

What does the speed-time graph below represent the object as?

• Travelling at constant speed, then decelerating.

• Accelerating, then decelerating

• Accelerating, then travelling at constant speed.

Multiple Choice

A cheetah travels 75 m in 3 s. What is her velocity over the interval?

• 225 m/s
• 25 m/s 
• 0.04 m/s

Multiple Choice

A hummingbird averages a speed of about 45 km/hour (Cool facts: They visit up to 1000 flowers per day, and reach maximum speed, while diving, up to 160 km/hour!). Ruby-throated hummingbirds take a non-stop trip across Gulf of Mexico in which they fly for 18 hours straight! How far is the trip across the Gulf of Mexico at their average speed?

• 810 km
• 2.5 km
• 3.6 km
• 360 km

Multiple Choice

You run from your house to a friend's house that is 3 km away. You then walk home. The distance you traveled is 6 km. What is your displacement? 

• 6  km
• 0 km

Multiple Choice

An object can be moving for 10 seconds and still have zero displacement.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

A quantity that is has magnitude and  direction is referred to as a

• vector quantity
• scalar quantity

Multiple Choice

A quantity that is ignorant of direction is referred to as a

• vector quantity
• scalar quantity

Multiple Choice

At 60 seconds, how far had this object traveled? 

• 0 m
• 10 m
• 20 m
• 40 m

Multiple Choice

The speedometer on your car tells you

• average velocity
• instantaneous velocity
• average speed
• instantaneous speed

Multiple Choice

What is velocity?

• the quickness of an object
• the location of an object
• acceleration
• speed in a specific direction

Multiple Choice

What is the formula to calculate speed?

• S = t/d
• S = d/t
• S = d x t
• S = t x d