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WorksheetsVelocity and Acceleration
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 1hrs 23mins
Velocity includes what and what?
speed over time
speed and acceleration
Speed and direction
Mass and motion
Paul was running late to school, which was 300 meters from his house. He had 5 minutes to get to school before the bell rang. What was his speed?
A.1,500 meters
1,500 meters per second
60 meters
65 meters per second
Homer was riding his bike at 250 meters/minute. After being chased by a dog for 2 minutes, he sped up and traveled 300 meters/minute. What was his acceleration?
45 meters/minute2
25 meters/minute2
-50 meters/minute2
160 meters/minute2
Your car traveled 200 miles in 2 hours. Your average speed was what?
a.100 miles/hour
200 miles/hour
300 miles/hour
400 miles/hour
What is the formula to calculate velocity?
Time x distance
Distance – time
Time + distance
Displacement / time
______________________ is speed with direction
Speed
Velocity
Acceleration
Force
Speed equals distance divided by ____.
time
velocity
size
motion
If a bicyclist travels 30 kilometers in two hours, her average speed is ____.
30 km/h
60 km/h
15 km/h
2 km/h
Speed and direction of an object
Acceleration
Friction
Unbalanced Force
Velocity
What is this an example of?
Ms Acosta walks 1 mile in 14 minutes.
Speed
Velocity
Acceleration
What is this an example of?
Jacob ran 5 kilometers in 24 minutes.
Speed
Velocity
Acceleration
When a car goes around a corner at 20 mph, why do we say it accelerates?
The car is accelerating because of the velocity is constant
The car accelerates because it's going 20 mph
Cars always accelerate when they are in motion
The car is accelerating because it's changing direction
A truck slowing down to stop at a red light is an example of ____.
Speed
Velocity
Acceleration
Direction
A horse accelerates from a velocity of 0m/s to 20 m/s in 3 seconds. What is the acceleration of the horse?
60 m/s2
6.67 m/s2
0.15 m/s2
30 m/s2
A train decelerates from a velocity of 90 m/s to 80m/s in over 10 seconds. What is the train's acceleration?
-1 m/s2
1 m/s2
10 m/s2
-10 m/s2
Sharis decides to be brave and go skydiving. If she accelerates at 9.81 m/s2 (m/s2 = m/s/s) for 4.9 s, what would her speed be at that time?
48.1 m/s
0.6 m/s
0.0015 m/s
7.1 m/s
Jeff stays after class to work on his science homework is late for hockey practice. He decides to run so the coach won't be mad. If the locker room is 300 m from the classroom and Jeff can run a surprising 25 m/s, how long would it take him to get there?
7.5 s
12 s
42.9 s
0.25 s
Rob is really bored one Saturday night and goes outside to study the nocturnal habits of mice in the hayfield. He sees a mouse sniffing along at 0.1 m/s but it hears him and starts to scurry for safety. For 3.7 s it accelerates at a rate of 0.216 m/s2. Find its final speed.
10.2 m/s
0.2 m/s
7.1 m/s
0.9 m/s
Ricky chucks a water balloon at his friend. Running for his life, he travels 100 m in 9.83 s. What was his average speed?
12.5 m/s
9.1 m/s
10.2 m/s
8.3 m/s
Looking for some good old-fashioned fun, Andrew decides to slide down the hill on a toboggan. Calculate the time it takes him to reach the bottom of the hill if he accelerates at a rate of 4 m/s2 to achieve a speed of 32 m/s.
8 s
2 s
7s
4 s
A car moving at 4.5 m/s accelerates at 2.5 m/s2. After 7 s, how fast will it be moving?
22 m/s
18.3 m/s
4.9 m/s
7.6 m/s
George rides his scooter 32 m in 20 s. What is his speed?
2 m/s2
1.6 m/s
3.2 m/s
52 m/s
A car traveling 36 m/s slows to a stop in 9 s. What is the car's acceleration?
3 m/s2
- 3 m/s2
4 m/s2
- 4 m/s2
A kid is sledding down a hill going 2 m/s. 5 s later he is going 12 m/s. What is his acceleration?
7 m/s2
10 m/s2
3 m/s2
2 m/s2
The bell rings and you leave class. It takes you 40 s to travel the 30 m to your next class. What is your average speed?
0.75 m/s
10 m/s2
1.3 m/s
0.75 m/s2
The speedometer in a car measures:
average velocity
average speed
instantaneous speed
displacement
To calculate velocity you need to know:
distance and time only
distance, time and direction
distance and direction only
distance, time and temperature
A cyclist is riding on the Silver Comet Trail traveling at 5 m/s. She increases her speed to 14 m/s in 3 s. What is her rate of acceleration?
3 m/s2
- 3 m/s2
9 m/s2
- 9 m/s2
Myrtle, your pet turtle races east 1 m in 100 s. What is her average velocity?
0.01 m/s2
0.01 m/s2 east
0.01 m/s east
0.01 m/s
A roller coaster is traveling at 15 m/s at the top of a hill. When the coaster reaches the bottom of the hill 8 s later it is going 36 m/s. What is the acceleration of the roller coaster?
5.14 m/s2
13 m/s2
2.6 m/s2
- 13 m/s2
A roller coaster is traveling 36 m/s. 4 seconds later the coaster is going 22 m/s. What is the acceleration of the roller coaster?
3.5 m/s2
- 3.5 m/s2
2 m/s2
- 2 m/s2
The S.I unit of acceleration is
m/min2
cm/min2
m/hr2
m/s2
The SI unit of speed is
cm/s
Km/h
m/s
None of the above
The S.I unit of acceleration is
m/min2
cm/min2
m/hr2
m/s2
The S.I unit of acceleration is
m/min2
cm/min2
m/hr2
m/s2
The S.I unit of acceleration is
m/min2
cm/min2
m/hr2
m/s2
The S.I unit of acceleration is
m/min2
cm/min2
m/hr2
m/s2
