Acceleration Review

Acceleration is a change in _________ or __________.

• speed or direction

• speed or distance

• displacement or speed

• speed or displacement

A car has an oil drip that drops every second. What is happening to the motion of the car shown above?

• Car is moving with a constant velocity

• Car is accelerating or speeding up

• Car is decelerating or slowing down

• Car is changing directions

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A car has an oil drip that drops every second. What is happening to the motion of the car shown above?

• Car is moving with a constant velocity

• Car is accelerating or speeding up

• Car is decelerating or slowing down

• Car is changing directions

A car has an oil drip that drops every second. What is happening to the motion of the car shown above?

• Car is moving with a constant velocity

• Car is accelerating or speeding up

• Car is decelerating or slowing down

• Car is changing directions

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

If an object is slowing down, what value would the acceleration be?

• positive

• negative

• both positive or negative

• Objects can only speed up

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A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly to a speed of 5 m/s in 2.5 seconds. The magnitude of the acceleration of the car is

• 2 m/s²

• 2 m/s

• 12.5 m/s²

• 12.5 m/s

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A jogger starting from rest accelerates at 0.5 m/s². What is the jogger's change in velocity at the end of 6 seconds.

• 3 m/s

• 3 m/s²

• 12 m/s

• 12 m/s²

The graph above shows an object moving with a constant velocity. What would be the corresponding velocity/time graph?

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What is happening to the car between 3-8 seconds?

• The car is stopped

• The car is traveling at a constant velocity of 0.5 m/s.

• The car has an acceleration of 0.5 m/s².

• The car is going in the other direction.

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What does the area underneath this graph represent?

• displacement

• velocity

• position

• acceleration