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Acceleration Practice Problems

This document provides practice problems about acceleration. It begins with short answer questions about speedometers, constant velocity, controls that affect speed and velocity, and acceleration at constant speed. It then provides calculation problems involving average acceleration in situations like a roller coaster picking up speed or a cyclist accelerating. Challenge problems apply concepts like initial velocity, acceleration rates, and falling objects.

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Acceleration Practice Problems

This document provides practice problems about acceleration. It begins with short answer questions about speedometers, constant velocity, controls that affect speed and velocity, and acceleration at constant speed. It then provides calculation problems involving average acceleration in situations like a roller coaster picking up speed or a cyclist accelerating. Challenge problems apply concepts like initial velocity, acceleration rates, and falling objects.

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ACCELERATION PRACTICE PROBLEMS

YOU MUST SHOW YOUR WORK.


You can use a calculator but you must show all of the steps involved in doing the problem.

SHORT ANSWER

1. Does the speedometer of a car read average speed or instantaneous speed? How do you know?

2. If the speedometer of your car reads a constant speed of 40km/hr, can you say 100% for sure that the car has a
constant velocity? Explain your answer.

3. What two controls on a car cause a change in speed?

4. What control causes a change in velocity?

5. What is the acceleration of a car that travels in a straight line at a constant speed?

6. Describe a situation in which you can accelerate even though your speed doesnt change.

CALCULATIONS

7. A roller coaster car rapidly picks up speed as it rolls down a slope. As it starts down the slope, its speed is 4 m/s.
But 3 seconds later, at the bottom of the slope, its speed is 22 m/s. What is its average acceleration?

8. A cyclist accelerates from 0 m/s to 8 m/s in 3 seconds. What is his acceleration ? Is this
acceleration higher than that of a car which accelerates from 0 to 30 m/s in 8 seconds?

9. A car advertisement states that a certain car can accelerate from rest to 70 km/h in 7 seconds. Find the cars
average acceleration.

10. A lizard accelerates from 2 m/s to 10 m/s in 4 seconds. What is the lizards average acceleration?

11. A runner covers the last straight stretch of a race in 4 s. During that time, he speeds up from 5 m/s to 9 m/s.
What is the runners acceleration in this part of the race?

12. You are traveling in a car that is moving at a velocity of 20 m/s. Suddenly, a car 10 meters in front of you slams
on its brakes. At that moment, you also slam on your brakes and slow to 5 m/s. Calculate the acceleration if it
took 2 seconds to slow your car down.

13. A ball is dropped from the top of a building. After 2 seconds, its velocity is measured to be 19.6 m/s. Calculate
the acceleration for the dropped ball.

Time
ocity InitialVel ity FinalVeloc
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CHALLENGE QUESTIONS

14. If a Ferrari, with an initial velocity of 10 m/s, accelerates at a rate of 50 m/s/s for 3 seconds, what will its final
velocity be?



15. Falling objects drop with an average acceleration of 9.8 m/s
2
. If an object falls from a tall building, how long will
it take before it reaches a speed of 49 m/s?





16. Josh rolled a bowling ball down a lane in 2.5 s. The ball traveled at a constant acceleration of 1.8 m/s2 down the
lane and was traveling at a speed of 7.6 m/s by the time it reached the pins at the end of the lane. How fast was
the ball going when it left Tims hand?

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