Speed & Acceleration Test Review

Polar bears are extremely good swimmers.  If a polar bear is swimming with an average of 2.6 m/s, how far will it have traveled after 120 seconds?

• 46.2 m

• 120 m

• 312 m

• 456.3 m

Tree sloths are the slowest moving mammals.  On average, their velocity is 0.743 m/s.  How long does it take a tree sloth moving at this velocity to travel 22.3 m?

• 16.6 s

• 30.0 s

• 0.03 s

• 143.7 s

What is the speed of a car that traveled 0.2 km in 12 seconds?

• 64 m/s

• 166.6 m/s

• 16.66 m/s

• 0.16 m/s

If it takes Heather 3 seconds to run from the batter's box to first base at an average speed of 6.5 meters per second, what is the distance she covers in that time?

• 19.5 m

• 0.46 m

• 2.2 m

• 3.5 m

Bart ran 5,000 meters from the police at an average speed of 6 m/s before he got caught. How long did he run?

• 3,000 s

• 0.0012 s

• 833.3 s

• 4.32s

Lauren's car was detected exceeding the posted speed limit of 60 km/hr. How much over the speed limit was she going if she covered a distance of 10 km in 0.08 hours?

• 40 km/hr Over

• 65 km/hr Over

• 15 km/hr Over

• 20 km/hr Over

If you are test-driving a Bugatti Veyron and you go from 0 m/s to 34.4 m/s in 3.7 seconds, what was your acceleration?

• 9.30 m/s²

• 128 m/s²

• -9.30 m/s²

• 0.0930 m/s²

A plane lands on the runway and slows from 758 km/hr to 30 km/hr in 0.013 hours. What is the plane's acceleration?

• 58,307 km/hr²

• 2,307 km/hr²

• -17857 m/s²

• -56,000 km/hr²

A sports car can go from 0 to 26.8 m/s in 14 seconds. What is the acceleration?

• 1.91 m/s²

• -4.29 m/s²

• 2.33 m/s²

• -2.33 m/s²

A golf ball accelerates off a tee at 15m/s², changing its velocity from 0m/s to 50 m/s down the fairway. How long did it take the golf ball to accelerate?

• 750 seconds

• 35 seconds

• 0.3 seconds

• 3.3 seconds