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WorksheetsUnit, speed and acceleration
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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?
a. 46.2 m
b. 120 m
c. 312 m
d. 456.3 m
2. 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?
a. 16.6 s
b. 30.0 s
c. 0.03 s
d. 143.7 s
It is the rate of change of the object's position with respect to a frame of reference and time.
a. Velocity
b. Speed
c. Time
d. Acceleration
What is the correct formula for acceleration?
a. a= vF - Vo
t
b d = s x t
c. a = d x t
d. a =
3. What is the speed of a car that traveled 0.2 km in 12 seconds?
a. 64 m/s
b. 16.66m/s
c. 166.67m/s
d. 1.66m/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?
a. 19.5 m
b. 0.46 m
c. 2.2 m
d. 3.5 m
Bart ran 5,000 meters from the police at an average speed of 21.6 km/hr before he got caught. How fast did he run?
a. 30,000 s
b. 0.0012 s
c. 833.3 s
d. 4.32s
If Mike rides his motorcycle at an average speed of 20 m/s for 500 seconds, how far does he ride?
a. 10,000 m
b. 25 m
c. 0.04 m
d. 250 m
It is the rate at which velocity changes with time, in terms of both speed and direction.
a. velocity
b. speed
c. time
d. acceleration
It is defined as a vector measurement of the rate and direction of motion.
a. velocity
b. acceleration
c. time
d. speed
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?
a. 40 km/hr Over
b. 65 km/hr Over
c. 15 km/hr Over
d. 35 km/hr Over
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?
a. . 15,555.56
b. 15,555.50
c. 15,555.45
d. 15,555.40
He was the first physicist who was popularly remembered as the man who saw an apple fall from a tree, and was inspired to invent the theory of gravity.
a. Ernest Rutherford
b. John Dalton
c. Antoine Lavoiser
d. Isaac Newton
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?
a. 75 s
b. 35s
c. 0.3s
d. 3.3s
A box sliding down an inclined plane attains a velocity of 27 m/s in 3 seconds from rest. Find the acceleration.
a. 30 m/s
b. 24 m/s2
c. 9 m/s2
d. 81 km/hr.
Speed = _______________
a. Distance + time
b. Distance x time
c. Distance / time
d. Distance – time
This occurs when an object speeds up, slows down, or changes direction.
a. Speed
b.Velocity
c. Acceleration
d. Final velocity.
Velocity = _______________
a. Speed – direction
b. Speed + direction
c. Speed x direction
d. Speed / direction
At what speed would a car have to move in order to travel 20 kilometers in 2 hours.
a. 5 km/hr
b. 10 km/hr
c. 20 km/hr
d. 40 km/hr
A measurement of how fast an object is moving
on
a. Velocity
b. Speed
c. Vector
d. Acceleration
