Practice Measuring, Interpreting, and Drawing Motion Time Graphs

Multiple Choice

What can you interpret from this graph?

• Runner 2 won the race

• Runner 1 ran at a faster average speed than runner 2

• Runner 2 probably didn’t finish the race

• Runner 2 took the same amount of time to finish the race

Multiple Choice

How is velocity different than speed?

• Speed opposes velocity
• Velocity is speed with a direction

• Speed and velocity are the same

Let's measure runner 1's speed
1. select two points on Line 1
2. divide the distance (y) by Time (x)
3. both sums should match if the line shows constant speed
4. repeate for Line 2

AVERAGE SPEED FOR LINE 1: _______

​AVERAGE SPEED FOR LINE 2: _______

​Measuring Distant Time Graphs

Multiple Choice

Which section shows the object moving at the fastest average speed?

• A
• B

• C

• D

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Multiple Choice

What is a plausible story for this graph?

• A student was jogging from school to home. She stopped to tie her shoe and take a drink from her water bottle, then continued at the same pace as before.

• A student was jogging from school to home. She walked for a while, then continued jogging.

• A sled rider was going down a hill. The hill was steep at first, then kind of flat. At the end, it was steep again.

• A car was slowing down, then contued moving at a constant rate. Finally, it slowed to a stop,

Multiple Choice

Find the average speed represented on this graph. (Hint: total distance divided by total time)

• 6 km/min

• 0.12 km/min

• 10 km/h

• 0.1 km/min

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Drag and Drop

CALCUTATE THE SPEEDS OF EACH BALL:

Ball A:​

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Ball B:​

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Ball C:​

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

3 m/s

1 m/s

.33 m/s

2 m/s

5 m/s

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Draw

Draw the following scenarios:

1. Blaine arrived at the trail and ran 10 m in 20 sec

2. He rested for 20 seconds

3. Then ran 30 meters in 20 seconds

4. He turned around and arrived back to the trail start in 20 more seconds

Poll

How Confident Are You About the Measuring, Interpreting, and drawing Motion Time Graphs?