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Worksheets1D Kinematics
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
1. In addition to time, which of the following must be used for a more complete description of the average acceleration of an object?
Mass
Displacement
Velocity
None of these
Velocity is...
The rate of change of acceleration
The rate of change of displacement
The rate of change of distance
The rate of change of speed
What is the acceleration of an object moving at constant velocity?
2 m/s2
1 m/s2
0 m/s2
0.8 m/s2
When velocity is positive and acceleration is positive, what happens to the object’s motion?
The object slows down
The object speeds up
Nothing happens to the objects motion
The object remains at rest
What is the difference between a vector quantity and a scalar quantity?
A scalar has a magnitude and direction and a vector has only a magnitude
A vector has a magnitude and direction and a scalar has only a magnitude
A scalar has a direction and a vector has a magnitude
None of the above
A bird flies 2 m/s. How far has the bird traveled after 1 min?
5 m
12 m
120 m
300 m
A toy car is given an initial velocity of 5 m/s and experiences a constant acceleration of 3 m/s2. What is the final velocity after 5 seconds?
20 m/s
10 m/s
9 m/s
5 m/s
Which of the following is a vector quantity?
Velocity
Acceleration
Displacement
All of the above
What is the speed of an object at rest
0 m/s
1 m/s
9.8 m/s
10 m/s
A dolphin swims 1.2 km/hr. How far has the dolphin travelled after 0.525 hr?
1.1 km
2.5 km
0.63 km
3.7 km
When the velocity is positive and the acceleration is negative, what happens to the objects motion?
The object slows down
The object speeds up
Nothing happens to the object
The object remains at rest
A toy car is given an initial velocity of 5m/s and experiences a constant acceleration of 2 m/s2 for 6 seconds. What is the final velocity of the car?
10 m/s
12 m/s
16 m/s
17 m/s
Acceleration due to gravity is also called...
negative velocity
displacement
free fall acceleration
instantaneous velocity
A coin released from rest from the top of a tower hits the ground after 3.1 seconds. What is the speed of the coin as it hits the ground?
15 m/s
21 m/s
31 m/s
39 m/s
What is the difference between the displacement of a traveler who takes a train from San Francisco to Los Angeles and the displacement of a traveler who flies from Los Angeles to San Francisco
They are the same
Displacement of the second traveler is greater
They are of equal magnitude but opposite sign
None of the above
A baseball catcher throws a ball straight up and catches it in the same spot. A what point in the balls trajectory does it experience a velocity of zero.
Midway on the way up
At its peak height
The instant it leaves the catchers hand
The instant before it arrives in the catchers mitt
A ball is thrown straight up into the air. As the ball travels upward, the speed of the ball
increases
decreases
stays the same
behaves randomly
A BASE jumper jumps off a building. As the jumper falls downward, his speed will.
increase
decrease
stay the same
behave randomly
A car travels 40 mph. How long will it take the car to travel 160 miles?
1 hour
2 hours
3 hours
4 hours
A car is travels 100 miles in 2 hours. What is the cars speed?
2 mph
25 mph
50 mph
200 mph
