Relative Velocity Lesson

Vectors & Velocity

Please have your notebook out and ready!

Multiple Choice

Bill runs 400 meters to Andy's house, turns around, and runs 400 meters back home.  What is Bill's displacement?

• 0 meters
• 400 meters
• 800 meters
• 1600 meters

Multiple Choice

Bill runs 400 meters to Andy's house, turns around, and runs 400 meters back home.  What is Bill's distance?

• 0 meters
• 400 meters
• 800 meters
• 1600 meters

Multiple Choice

Bill jogs 400 meters to Andy's house, turns around, and runs 400 meters back home.  He does so in 267 seconds.  What is Bill's average speed?

• about 3 m/s
• about 1.5 m/s
• 0
• about 4 m/s

Open Ended

What's one thing going on in your life? Or, what's one thing you're grateful for?

Multiple Choice

True or False: this graph shows several segments ALL with constant velocity.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What segment of the graph shows no motion, or standing still?

• A - B

• B - C

• C - D

• None

Multiple Choice

Select the description of motion from A - B.

• Slowing down away from the origin

• Speeding up away from the origin

• Constant velocity away from the origin

• Constant velocity towards the origin

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes a vector?

• It has magnitude but no direction
• It has direction but no magnitude
• It has both direction and magnitude
• It has constant magnitude but no
   direction

Multiple Choice

A car moved 60 km East and 90 km West. What is the distance it traveled?

• 30 km, West
• 60 km. East
• 90 km
• 150 km

Multiple Choice

The _______ of two or more vectors is the sum of the vectors.

• components
• scalar
• resultant
• magnitude

Multiple Choice

A car travels 90 meters due north in 15 seconds. Then the car turns around and travels 40 meters due south.  What is the magnitude and direction  of the car's resultant displacement?  

• 40 metres, South
• 50 metres, South
• 50 metres, North
• 40 metres, North 

Multiple Choice

The velocity-time graphs represent the motion of three different objects. Identify any object that is changing directions. Check all that apply.

• None of the above

Multiple Select

The velocity-time graphs represent the motion of four different objects. Identify any object that is getting faster or speeding up. Check all that apply.

Multiple Select

The velocity-time graphs represent the motion of four different objects. Identify any object that is changing its velocity or accelerating. Check all that apply.

Multiple Choice

The velocity-time graphs represent the motion of four different objects. Identify any object that is stationary or not moving. Check all that apply.

Multiple Choice

The motions of Objects A, B, and C are represented on a position-time graph. Observe their lines and rank the speeds of Objects A, B, and C from slowest to fastest.

• A, B, C

• B, A, C

• A, C, B

• C, B, A

Multiple Choice

Five stages - labeled A, B, C, D, and E - of an object's motion are represented by the position-time graph below. During which stage(s) is the object moving towards its starting point?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Multiple Choice

A bike starting at rest reaches a final velocity of 8.0 m/s. What is the cyclist's average velocity?

• 0 m/s

• 16 m/s

• 2.0 m/s

• 4.0 m/s