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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
The Cassini spacecraft will burn up in a final dive into the atmosphere of Saturn in September 2017. It will be moving 34,336 m/s in its final descent. What is this in km/h?
34.3 km/h
123,610 km/h
34,336 km/h
9538 km/h
A tracking system that defines north as the positive direction shows that a drone is flying with a velocity of –45 km/h. What direction is it going?
A direction other than north or south
North
It is impossible to say from the information given
South
In which section(s) is the car moving to the right?
B, D, E
A
B, C, D
A, B, C, D
The leopard ends up 14 km west of its starting position. If the trip takes 2 hours, what is its average velocity?
7 km/h East
14 km/h East
7 km/h West
14 km/h West
The speedometer in a car shows:
Average Speed
Instantaneous Speed
A truck travels 65 km in half an hour. What was its average speed?
32.5 km/h
2.2 km/h
13.0 km/h
130,000m/h
Sometimes, people measure high accelerations in "g's", where one g is 10 m/s/s. What is the acceleration, in m/s/s, of a dragster that does 5.3 g's?
53m/s/s
5.3m/s/s
53km/s/s
530m/s/s
Which of the following are accelerations?
0.2 m/s/s
3 m/s/s left
15 m/s up
95 km/h south
A lion chasing a zebra sprints 200 metres in ten seconds. What is the lion's average speed?
0.05 m/s
2000 m/s
20 m/s
10 m/s
A car pulls away from a section of roadwork on a straight road heading due north. It takes 6 seconds to get from 14 m/s to 26 m/s. What is the car's acceleration?
0.5 m/s/s north
2 m/s/s north
6.7 m/s/s north
72 m/s/s north
In which sections of the graph does the train have zero acceleration?
A, B, C
E, F, G
B, D, F
A, E, G
Florence Griffith-Joyner holds the world record for the women's 200 m. She ran the distance at an average speed of 9.37 m/s. How long did it take her?
20 s
18.74 s
46.85 s
21.34 s
You climb down a 30 metre ladder in 30 seconds. If the up direction is thought of as positive, what is your average velocity?
+1 m/s
-1 m/s
–30 m/s
+30 m/s
A truck travels 65 km in half an hour. What was its average speed?
32.5km/h
130km/h
65km/h
1300km/h
A train travels 390 km in 3 hours. What was its average speed over this time?
108 km/h
1170 km/h
130 km/h
1404 km/h
