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Problems in Kinematics

The document provides 15 example problems related to kinematics concepts such as velocity, acceleration, displacement, distance, graphs of motion, and rotational motion. The problems cover calculating average velocity, determining when and where objects meet based on their motion, deriving equations from position-time graphs, and solving word problems involving walking, running, cycling and rotational motion. Sample solutions are provided for each problem.

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Problems in Kinematics

The document provides 15 example problems related to kinematics concepts such as velocity, acceleration, displacement, distance, graphs of motion, and rotational motion. The problems cover calculating average velocity, determining when and where objects meet based on their motion, deriving equations from position-time graphs, and solving word problems involving walking, running, cycling and rotational motion. Sample solutions are provided for each problem.

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PROBLEMS IN KINEMATICS

1) A car is running for 20 min at 120 km/h and for 90 min at 90 km/h. What is its average velocity?
Solution: 26'5 m/s = 95'4 km/h

A 20 km B
2) When and where will these cars meet?

Solution: 60 km on the right of B, 1 h.


80 km/h 60 km/h

3) An onject started to move from the rest and is reaching 100 km/h in 12 s. Calculate:
a) The acceleration. b) The covered space in 20 s. c) The time needed to reach 200 km/h.
Solution: a) 2'32 m/s2. b) 464 m. c) 24 s.

4) An object is moving at 60 km/h. Suddenly, it is accelerating and travelling 52 m in 2’5 s.


Calculate: a) Its acceleration. b) Its final velocity. Solution: a) 3'28 m/s2. b) 24'9 m/s.

5) A shotgun is shot upwards in the vertical direction at 300 km/h. Calculate:


a) The maximum height. b) The velocity within 3 s. c) The time to reach maximum height.
Solution: a) 347 m. b) 53'3 m/s. c) 8'33 s.

6) Draw the graph of this equation: s = – 3 · t + 6

7) Draw the graph of this equation: s = t2 + 2 · t + 4

8) Find out the equation of this graph:

s(m)

30

20

10

0
0 5 10 15 20 t(s)

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9) Calculate the total space of a moving object with this graph:
v (m/s)
25

20
Solution: 1350 m
15

10

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 t (s)

10) A disc of 30 cm in diameter is spinning at 45 rpm. Calculate: a) The angular velocity.


b) The linear velocity at 5 cm from the centre. c) The linear velocity in the circumference of the
disc. d) The number of rotations in 3 min 20 s. e) The period. f) The frequency.
Solution: a) 4´71 rad/s b) 0´235 m/s c) 0´706 m/s d) 150 vueltas e) 1´33 s f) 0´752 Hz

EXTRA PROBLEMS

11) From the top of a skyscraper, a stone is dropped. a) If it takes 10 s, what is its height?
b) How long would it take if you threw it downwards at 80 km/h? Solution: a) 500 m. b) 8’02 s.

12) An athlete (A) is 75 m from the finishing line and is running at 4 m/ s. Another athlete (B) is
100 m from the finishing line and is running at 6 m/s. Who will win and why?

13) A person left his house, walked 200 m towards the baker’s at 1´4 m/s. He stayed there for 2 min
and went back home at 1´8 m/s. a) Calculate the average velocity for all the process.
b) What has been the displacement? c) What has been the covered distance?
d) Draw the v – t graph. e) Draw the s – t graph. Solution: a) 1'07 m/s.

14) Two cyclists are running on the same road with straight uniform motions, one at 15 km/h and
the other one at 25 km/h. What distance advantage should they have at the beginning if they must
meet after 2 km of the faster one?
Solution: 800 m.

15) The radius of the Earth is 6370 km. Calculate the angular velocity and the linear velocity in km/
h that we have because of the rotation of the Earth. Solution: 7'27.10-5 rad/s, 1668 km/h.

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