General Physics 1: Learning Activity Sheet
General Physics 1: Learning Activity Sheet
General Physics 1: Learning Activity Sheet
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Knowing how far something moves is not sufficient. You must also know in what
direction the object moved. This is known as displacement. Displacement is a vector
quantity. It has both magnitude and direction.
Velocity is the ratio of the displacement that occurs during a particular time interval.
To be more precise, we use the average velocity. The mathematical description of
velocity is given by
Examples
1. You have trained all year for a marathon. In your first attempt to run a marathon,
you decide that you want to complete 42.195 km in 2 hours. What would your average
speed be?
Solution:
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2. Suppose you are walking home after school. The distance from school to your home
is 1.5 kilometers. On foot, you can get home in 25 minutes. However, if you rode a
bicycle, you could get home in 10 minutes. What is your average speed while walking?
Solution:
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Learning Competency:
Convert verbal description of a physical situation involving uniform acceleration in one
dimension into a mathematical description (STEM_GP12KIN-Ib-12)
Directions: Read carefully each of the following problems. To earn full marks when solving
word problems, you MUST SHOW ALL YOUR WORK. This must include all the components
specified below.
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A. Average Speed
1. If it takes Shirly 3 seconds to run from the batter’s box to first base at an average speed
of 6.5 meters per second, what is the distance she covers in that time?
2. Bart ran 5000 meters from the cops and an average speed of 6 meters per second
before he got caught? How long did he run?
3. Suppose you are with your friends jogging around the oval of the Cagayan Sports
Complex. Assuming that you jog 4.0 km in 32 minutes, then 2.0 km in 22 minutes, and
finally 1.0 km in 16 minutes. What is your average speed in km/min?
4. You were told by your mother that dinner will be at 6:00 PM. You left school at 5:30
PM and started walking. Assuming that your average speed is 2 𝑚 𝑠 and the distance
between the school and your house is 3.5 km. Would you be able to get home in time
for dinner? Show your computations.
5. Quarantine has made you gain weight. You decided to do some workouts for 5 weeks
and see if there will be a positive result. In the first week, you wrote down your jogging
time for each day.
Mon – 5 mins Thu – 30 mins
Tue – 10 mins Fri- 35 mins
Weds – 25 mins
B. Average Velocity
1. A baseball game is happening at Cagayan Sports Complex. A batter batted the ball and
reached a distance of 867 meters. How much time is needed for the ball to travel the
distance if its velocity is 34.45 meters per second due east?
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2. After the three months quarantine period, Family Agcaoili decided to take a vacation
at Blue Lagoon Resort in Claveria, Cagayan. If the family drives 335 kilometers from
San Pablo, Isabela to Claveria, how long will it take the family to reach their destination
if they travel at a velocity of 100 kilometers per hour, northwest?
3. A Lazada delivery man realizes that he is traveling in the wrong direction on a one-way
street. He has already driven 2.13 kilometers at a velocity of 12 meters per second,
east before he decided to make a U-turn. How long did it take the delivery man to
realize his error?
5. A volcanologist noted that lava rushed down a volcano at 43.21 km per hour, south.
How far did the lava flow in 15 seconds?
C. Acceleration
1. A Toyota Altis has an initial velocity of 5.76 𝑚/𝑠 , and accelerates at a rate of 67.45
𝑚/𝑠 2 for 2.13 seconds, what will its final velocity be?
2. A housefly accelerates from 1.24 𝑚/𝑠 to 6.86 𝑚/𝑠 in 2.54 seconds. What is the
housefly’s average acceleration?
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3. A cable car quickly speeds up down a slope. As it starts down a slope, its velocity is
5.69 𝑚/𝑠. But 1.0 seconds later, at the bottom of the slope, its velocity became 16.2
𝑚/𝑠 . What is the average acceleration of the cable car?
4. A cyclist accelerates from 0𝑚/𝑠 to 7.68 𝑚/𝑠 in 2.31 seconds. Is this acceleration higher
than that of a car that accelerates from 0𝑚/𝑠 to 30𝑚/𝑠 in 5.2 seconds?
5. Ferrari’s advertisement on the television says that the newest model of Ferrari can accelerate
from rest to 89.76 km per hour in just only 3.21 seconds. Find the average acceleration.
2. 5. An electron that is moving with a velocity of 10, 000 𝑚/𝑠 is accelerated at 8.0 * 104
𝑚/𝑠 2 by an electric field. What is the velocity acquired by the electron after it has
traveled 1 cm?
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5. 8. A train changes its velocity from 30𝑘𝑚/ℎ𝑟 to 80𝑘𝑚 ℎ𝑟 while traveling a distance of
200 meters. Find the a. acceleration; and b. the time taken to travel 200 meters.
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Activity 2: SOLVE ME
Direction: Solve for what is asked using the given basic four formulas for solving
uniformly acceleration motion.
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