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Kinematics Worksheet

This document contains a worksheet with multiple physics problems involving kinematics concepts such as displacement, velocity, acceleration, and graphical analysis. Problem 1 involves calculating the time and velocity of a car accelerating towards a traffic light. Problem 2 involves calculating the horizontal and vertical components of a golf ball's initial velocity as well as its maximum height, time to land, horizontal distance, and velocities just before landing. The remaining problems involve additional kinematics calculations and graphing for scenarios like a basketball's motion, a toy car's acceleration down a slope, and a moped's motion between traffic lights.

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Kinematics Worksheet

This document contains a worksheet with multiple physics problems involving kinematics concepts such as displacement, velocity, acceleration, and graphical analysis. Problem 1 involves calculating the time and velocity of a car accelerating towards a traffic light. Problem 2 involves calculating the horizontal and vertical components of a golf ball's initial velocity as well as its maximum height, time to land, horizontal distance, and velocities just before landing. The remaining problems involve additional kinematics calculations and graphing for scenarios like a basketball's motion, a toy car's acceleration down a slope, and a moped's motion between traffic lights.

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CAPE Physics Unit1 Worksheet: Kinematics

Instructions:
 Answer all the questions
 All workings must be shown clearly.
1. A driver traveling in his car at an initial velocity of 8.0 m s-1 sees a traffic light at a
distance 30 m ahead. The traffic light had just turned from green to amber. The driver
wants to beat the red light and hence proceeded to accelerate at a constant rate of 2.0 m s-2.
The time taken for the amber light to change to red is 5.0 s. Assume that there is no air
resistance and that the car is a point object.

(a) (i) Calculate the time the car took to reach the traffic light. [2]

(ii) Hence, deduce if the driver manages to clear the traffic light before it turns to red.
[1]
(b) Calculate the velocity of the car at the instance when the car arrives at the traffic light.
[1]
2. A golfer on an elevated driving range strikes a golf ball and launches it into the air with
o
an initial velocity of 30 m s-1 at an angle of 40 above the horizontal line as shown in the
diagram below. The ground is 4.0 m below the golfer’s platform. Assume that there is no
air resistance.

30 m s-1

o
40

4.0 m

Distance R
Ground

(a) Determine the magnitude of the horizontal and vertical components of the initial
velocity of the golf ball. [1]

(b) Calculate the maximum height of the golf ball above the ground. [2]

(c) Calculate the time for the golf ball to hit the ground after it was launched. [2]

(d) Calculate the horizontal distance R between the point where the golf ball hits the
ground and the point directly below the golfer. [1]

(e) Determine the velocity of the golf ball just before it hits the ground. [3]

(f) Taking the velocity rightwards and upwards as positive, sketch graphs to show,
(i) the variation of the vertical component (vy) of the velocity of the golf ball with time.
(ii) the variation of the horizontal component (vx) of the velocity of the golf ball with time.
[4]
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3. A basketball player throws a ball with an initial velocity of 6.5 m s at an angle of 50 to
the horizontal. The ball is 2.3 m above the ground when released.

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4. A student has been asked to determine the linear acceleration of a toy car as it moves
down a slope. He sets up the apparatus as shown in Fig. 3.1.

The time t to move from rest through a distance d is found for different values of d. A
graph of d (y-axis) is plotted against t 2 (x-axis) as shown in Fig. 3.2.
a. Theory suggests that the graph is a straight line through the origin. State the feature
on Fig. 3.2 that indicates the presence of
(i) random error,
(ii) systematic error. [2 marks]
b. (i) Determine the gradient of the line of the graph in Fig. 3.2. [3 marks]
(ii) Use your answer to (i) to calculate the acceleration of the toy down the slope.
Explain your working. [3 marks]
c. The graph in Fig.3.2 does not pass through any of the plotted points. Explain how
drawing the graph this way affects the result of this experiment. [2 marks]

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5. A snooker ball moves in a straight line with a constant speed of u m s–1. It hits the
cushion directly after a time t1 and rebounds along the same path with a constant
speed of (u − 0.2) m s–1. Sketch the displacement-time graph. (Assume u > 0.2)

6. Figure 3 shows the velocity-time graph for a moped, which travelled between two sets
of traffic lights on a straight road.
(a) What is the moped’s acceleration in each of the time intervals OX, XY and YZ?

(b) What was the total distance between the two sets of traffic lights?

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