Lesson: Motion, Speed, and Velocity

Speed and Velocity

By William Lovering

Multiple Choice

The total amount an object moves regardless of direction.

• distance

• displacement

Multiple Choice

A ping-pong ball rolls forward 6 meters, and bounces backward 3 meters. It traveled a total distance of:

• 9 meters

• 6 meters

• 3 meters

• 0 meters

Multiple Choice

Which of these describes distance?

• The amount you get when you add every change in position, in any direction, always using positive numbers.

• The amount you get when you measure how far something is in a straight line with one direction positive numbers and the opposite direction negative.

Multiple Choice

Read this problem:

A bicyclist travels 60.0 kilometers in 3.5 hours. What is the cyclist’s average speed?

What are you trying to calculate in this problem?

• How far they traveled

• How long it took

• Their average speed

• Who was fastest

Multiple Select

Read this problem:

A bicyclist travels 60.0 kilometers in 3.5 hours. What is the cyclist’s average speed?

How are the quantities given in this problem related to the quantity you need to calculate?

• the distance divided by time gives you the speed

• The speed divided by the distance gives you time.

• distance times times gives you speed

• Speed times distance gives you time

Multiple Choice

Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds the world record for the Men's 100 meter race. He finished in 9.58 seconds! What was his speed?

What quantity are you trying to find in this problem?

• distance

• time

• speed

• acceleration

Multiple Choice

American Florence Griffith Joyner (nickamed "Flo-Jo") holds the world record for the fastest women's 100 meter race. Her time was 10.49 seconds! What was her average speed during the race? (round to the nearest tenth)

• 1 m/s

• .1 m/s

• 9.4 m/s

• 9.5 m/s

Multiple Select

A car travels 210 miles in 3 hours. What is the average speed of the car?

What measurements do they give us and what units?

• distance in miles

• distance in kilometers

• time in hours

• average speed in seconds

Multiple Choice

It took 3.5 hours for a train to travel the distance between two cities at a velocity of 120 miles/hr.  How many miles lie between the two cities? 

• 34 miles 
• 420 miles
• 120 miles 
• 360 miles