Calculate Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration

Another way to explain the speed and direction of a object would be to describe it’s ________

• Speed

• Velocity

• Acceleration

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(Final speed - Initial Speed) / time = __________________

• Speed

• Velocity

• Acceleration

Velocity = _______________

• Speed – direction

• Speed + direction

• Speed x direction

• Speed / direction

You drive 25 miles in 30 minutes. What is your average speed in terms of mi/hr?

• 25mi/30min

• 5mi/6min

• 25mi/hr

• 50mi/hr

Another word for distance divided by time would be what?

• Speed

• Velocity

• Acceleration

Final speed = 10ft/sec. Initial speed = 5ft/sec. Time = 1sec. Acceleration = ________

• 2ft/s/s

• 5ft/s/s

• 1ft/s/s

• 10ft/s/s

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If a plane is flying west at a speed of 500 feet per second. What is its velocity? 

• 500 feet per second

• Time is not given

• Distance/time

• 500ft/sec west

My car is moving at 25mi/hr. I hit my brakes and slow to a stop, it takes 5 seconds to fully stop. Acceleration = _____

• 20mi/hr/sec

• 5mi/hr/sec

• -5mi/hr/sec

• -20mi/hr/sec

If it takes me 10 minutes to walk 1 mile, what is my speed?

• 10min/mi

• 10mi/min

• 1mi/10min

• 1min/10mi

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

If my starting speed is 100mi/hr and my final speed is 0mi/hr I experienced acceleration.

• True

• False