Describing Motion

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  1. Speed with direction is called...
  2. Your answer:
    Acceleration
    Displacement
    Velocity
    Momentum


  3. A running back travels for 4s at 8 m/s, then 3s at 4 m/s, and lastly for 6s at 7m/ s before being tackled. What was his average speed?
  4. Your answer:
    6.6 m/s
    6.1 m/s
    6.3 m/s
    5.8 m/s


  5. What was the total distance traveled by the running back in question 2
  6. Your answer:
    82 m
    100 m
    86 m
    19 m


  7. If you move towards a motion detector at constant speed the v-t graph wil have..
  8. Your answer:
    zero slope and be negative
    a constant positive slope (not zero)
    a constant negative slope (not zero)
    zero slope and be positive


  9. If you move away from a motion detector at an increasing rate the d-t graph will
  10. Your answer:
    be flat
    have a constant positive slope
    have a constant negative slope
    increase at a non-constant rate


  11. When you look at the speedometer in a moving car, you see the car's..
  12. Your answer:
    average speed
    instantaneous speed
    instantaneous acceleration
    average sistance traveled


  13. Suppose you are in a car that is going around a curve. The speedometer reads a constant 30 miles per hour. Which of the following is not true?
  14. Your answer:
    Your acceleration is constant
    Your velocity is constant
    Your speed is constant
    You and the car are accelerating


  15. Acceleration is defined as the change in..
  16. Your answer:
    time it takes to move from one speed to another speed
    velocity divided by the time interval
    distance divided by the time interval
    velocity of an object


  17. In 1991, four english teenagers built an electric car that could obtain a speed of 30 m/s. Suppose it takes 8.0 s for this car to accelerate from 18 m/s to 30 m/s. What is the magnitude of the car's acceleration?
  18. Your answer:
    1.5 m/s/s
    1.7 m/s/s
    3.8 m/s/s
    6 m/s/s


  19. A student cycling their bike at 10 m/s slows down to a stop in a distance of 20m. What is their rate of deceleration?
  20. Your answer:
    10 m/s/s
    .5 m/s/s
    5 m/s/s
    2.5 m/s/s


  21. What is the meaning of free fall?
  22. Your answer:
    Changing motion due to the influence of gravity only
    Falling downwards
    Falling downwards while only under the influence of gravity
    No forces acting on an object


  23. Form your video analysis lab, what does the slope of the tangent line on a d-t graph tell you?
  24. Your answer:
    instantaneous velocity
    average velocity
    displacement
    acceleration


  25. The equation used to describe a d-t graph is d = 20m + (-4m/s)t . The shape of the line on the graph is
  26. Your answer:
    a flat line
    a diagonal line with negative slope
    a diagonal line with postive slope
    a parabolic curve with changing slope


  27. A ball tossed vertically upward rises, reaches its highest point, and then falls back down to its starting point. During this time the acceleration of the ball is always..
  28. Your answer:
    directed upward
    directed downward
    in the direction of motion
    opposite its velocity


  29. A ball is thrown straight up. At the top of its path its acceleration is..
  30. Your answer:
    about - 10 m/s/s
    about - 5 m/s/s
    about - 20 m/s/s
    0 m/s/s


  31. If a freely falling object were somehow equipped with a speedometer, its speed reading would change each second by..
  32. Your answer:
    a rate that depends on its initial speed
    about 5 m/s
    a variable amount
    about 10 m/s


  33. In the absence of air resistance, objects fall at constant ..
  34. Your answer:
    velocity
    acceleration
    distances each successive second
    all of these are true


  35. Suppose a jumper claims a hang time of 2 seconds. Then that jumper must be able to jump a distance of..
  36. Your answer:
    2 m
    4 m
    5 m
    1 m


  37. What speed must you toss a ball straight up so that it takes 4.0 s to return to you?
  38. Your answer:
    20 m/s
    40 m/s
    10 m/s
    80 m/s


  39. A projectile fired beneath the water, straight up, breaks the surface at a speed of 16 m/s, to what height above the water will it ascend?
  40. Your answer:
    12.8 m
    1.6 m
    6.4 m
    0.8 m



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