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    Moving in Space and Time: Practice Questions

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    This document contains 3 practice questions about motion for a physics chapter on moving in space and time. Question 1 involves calculating the acceleration, distance traveled, and deceleration of a sports car accelerating from 0 to 62 mph. Question 2 involves calculating the horizontal and vertical components of velocity, maximum height, and range of a hammer being thrown at an angle. Question 3 involves describing a speed-time graph of a car journey, calculating maximum acceleration, and estimating total distance traveled. The total marks for the test paper are 25.

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    Moving in Space and Time: Practice Questions

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    This document contains 3 practice questions about motion for a physics chapter on moving in space and time. Question 1 involves calculating the acceleration, distance traveled, and deceleration of a sports car accelerating from 0 to 62 mph. Question 2 involves calculating the horizontal and vertical components of velocity, maximum height, and range of a hammer being thrown at an angle. Question 3 involves describing a speed-time graph of a car journey, calculating maximum acceleration, and estimating total distance traveled. The total marks for the test paper are 25.

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    This document contains 3 practice questions about motion for a physics chapter on moving in space and time. Question 1 involves calculating the acceleration, distance traveled, and deceleration of a sports car accelerating from 0 to 62 mph. Question 2 involves calculating the horizontal and vertical components of velocity, maximum height, and range of a hammer being thrown at an angle. Question 3 involves describing a speed-time graph of a car journey, calculating maximum acceleration, and estimating total distance traveled. The total marks for the test paper are 25.

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    This document contains 3 practice questions about motion for a physics chapter on moving in space and time. Question 1 involves calculating the acceleration, distance traveled, and deceleration of a sports car accelerating from 0 to 62 mph. Question 2 involves calculating the horizontal and vertical components of velocity, maximum height, and range of a hammer being thrown at an angle. Question 3 involves describing a speed-time graph of a car journey, calculating maximum acceleration, and estimating total distance traveled. The total marks for the test paper are 25.

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    Chapter 1
    Moving in Space and Time
    1. A modern sports car can accelerate from a standing start to 62 mph (miles per hour) in 3.7
    seconds.
    a Convert 62 mph to ms-1 (1 mile = 1609 m)
    ...................................................................................................................................
    .............................................................................................................................. [1]
    b Calculate the acceleration of the car.
    .............................................................................................................................. [1]
    c How far will the car travel as it accelerates from 0 to 62 mph?
    ...................................................................................................................................
    .............................................................................................................................. [2]
    d The car can be brought to a stop from 62 mph in a distance of 50 m (the braking
    distance). Calculate the deceleration.
    ...................................................................................................................................
    .............................................................................................................................. [2]
    [Total: 6]
    2. Throwing the hammer is an Olympic sport where the thrower whirls a tungsten ball
    around on the end of a metal chain, before releasing it.
    a The thrower releases the hammer at a velocity of 26 ms-1, at an angle of 40o to the
    horizontal. Calculate the horizontal and vertical components of the velocity.
    Horizontal component
    .............................................................................................................................. [2]
    Vertical component
    .............................................................................................................................. [2]
    b Find the maximum height above the release point reached by the hammer
    ...................................................................................................................................
    .............................................................................................................................. [2]
    c Find the range, that is the horizontal distance travelled by the hammer.
    ...................................................................................................................................
    .............................................................................................................................. [2]

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    d Suggest why the actual range may be different to the value you have just calculated.
    ...................................................................................................................................
    .............................................................................................................................. [2]
    [Total: 10]
    3. The graph below shows a speed-time graph for a car journey.

    a Describe the journey.


    ...................................................................................................................................
    ...................................................................................................................................
    ...................................................................................................................................
    .............................................................................................................................. [4]
    b Calculate the maximum acceleration of the car.
    ...................................................................................................................................
    .............................................................................................................................. [3]
    c Estimate the total distance travelled by the car..
    ...................................................................................................................................
    .............................................................................................................................. [2]
    [Total: 9]
    [Total for test paper: 25 Marks]

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