Practice Quiz #1 - Identifying Motion Variables

Identify any of the following units that could be correctly used for velocity?

• m/s [left]
• m
• m [South]
• m/s
• m/s²

Identify any of the following units that could be correctly used for acceleration?

• m/s² [down]
• m
• m [South]
• m/s
• m/s [left]

Identify any of the following units that could be correctly used for displacement?

• m [South]
• m
• m/s
• m/s [left]
• m/s²

A plane traveled for about 4.5 hours at a velocity of 1500 km/h towards the west.  How far did it travel?

The "4.5 hours" in the above problem is which of the following variables?

• Time (t)
• Displacement (x)

• Velocity (v) [neither initial or final]
• Initial Velocity (vᵢ)
• Final Velocity (vf)

A plane traveled for about 4.5 hours at a velocity of 1500 km/h towards the west.  How far did it travel?

The "1500 km/h" in the above problem is which of the following variables?

• Velocity (v) [neither initial or final]
• Displacement (x)

• Initial Velocity (vᵢ)
• Final Velocity (vf)
• Time (t)

A plane traveled for about 4.5 hours at a velocity of 1500 km/h towards the west.  How far did it travel?

Which of the following variables are you solving for?

• Displacement (x)

• Velocity (v) [neither initial or final]
• Initial Velocity (vᵢ)
• Final Velocity (vf)
• Time (t)

Which of the following equations would you use to solve this?

• 
• 
• Neither of these

Velocity is both ____ and _____. 

• speed , direction 
• direction, mass
• volume, density 
• direction, magnitude