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This document contains 13 physics problems about acceleration. The problems ask students to calculate acceleration given changes in velocity over time for various moving objects, including cars, roller coasters, cyclists, lizards, runners, balls, and bowling balls. Students are asked to show their work and use proper units in their calculations and responses.

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Acceleration Worksheet (97) Copy 5

This document contains 13 physics problems about acceleration. The problems ask students to calculate acceleration given changes in velocity over time for various moving objects, including cars, roller coasters, cyclists, lizards, runners, balls, and bowling balls. Students are asked to show their work and use proper units in their calculations and responses.

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IB MYP Physics l — Acceleration Worksheet


Questions
1. Which devieets) on a car can be used to control its aceeleration‘/

2. Describe a situation when an object has . . .


a. zero velocity, but non-zen› acceleration.

b. zero acceleration, but non-zero velocity.

Problems
Ycu can use a calculator but you must show all of the steps involx'ed in doing the problem.

3. A roller coaster ear rapidly picks up sFeed 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 in/s. What is its
acceleration‘?

4. A cyclist accelerates tram 0 in/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 mls in 8 seconds'?

5. A lizard accelerates tram 2 m/s to 10 mls in 4 seconds. What is the lizard's acceleration‘?

6. A runner covers the last straight stretch of a race in 4 s. During that time, he spends up from 5 m/s to
9 mls. What is the runner's acceleration in this part of the race‘/

7. You are traveling in a ear that is moving at a velocity of 20 mls. Suddenly, a ear 10 meters in tront of
you slams on its brakes. At that moment, you also slain on your brakes and slow to 5 mls. Calculate
the acceleration it’it took 2 seconds to slow your ear down.
8. A ball is droFped fn›m the top of a building. After 2 seconds, its velocity is measured to be 19.6 m/s.
C“alculate the acceleration for the dropped ball.

Challcngc Problems

9. A baseball is pitched at 40 in/s (90 mFh) in a K-League game. The batter hits the ball on a line drive
straight toward the Fitcher at 50 in/s (112 mph). Determine the acceleration ot’ the ball if it was in
contact with the bat tor 1/30 s.

10. lt’ a Ferrari, with an initial vel‹xity ot’ 10 in/s, accelerates at a rate of 50 mls for 3 seconds, what will
its tinal velocity be’!

11. Falling objects drop with an average acceleration of 9. h mls'. lt’ an object falls from a tall building,
how long will it take betore it reaches a speed ot’49 m/s‘/

12. Josh rolled a bowling ball down a lane in 2.5 s. The ball traveled at a constant acceleration of -1. h
in/s' down the lane and was traveling at a speed ot’7.f› mls by the time it reached the pins at the end
of the lane. How tast was the ball going when it leti Josh’s hand‘?

13. A problem about a car.


a. A car is said to go ”zero ini/hr to sixty mi/hr in six point seven seconds". ( 1 mi = 1.609 km)
What is its acceleration in in/s"!

b. The driver can't release his foot from the gas Fedal. (The gas pedal is also known as the
accelerator. C“oincidence’! 1 think not.) How many additional seconds would it take tor the
driver to reach 80 ini/hr (assuming the acceleration hasn't changed)’!

c. The ear is now moving at 80 mi/hr. What acceleration would it have (using units of mls') if it
took 5.0 s to come to a complete stop'?

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