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Speed and Acceleration REVIEW

Forces and Motion: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration


EQUATIONS: Speed: V=d/t Acceleration: a=(Vf-Vi)/t

Sample Problems:

A girl travels 20 miles on her bicycle. The trip takes 2 hours. Express her speed in miles/hr.

1. First, we identify the variables in our problem:

distance (d) = 20 miles


time (t) = 2 hours

2. We place the variables in their correct position in the speed formula

V = d/t
V = 20 mi/2 hour

3. Perform the calculation and express the resulting speed value with the appropriate unit:

V = 10 mi/hr

A car starts from a stoplight and is traveling with a velocity of 10 m/sec east in 20 seconds. What is the acceleration of
the car?

1. First we identify the information that we are given in the problem:

vf - 10 m/sec
vo - 0 m/sec
time - 20 seconds

2. Then we insert the given information into the acceleration formula:

a = (vf - vo)/t
a = (10 m/sec - 0 m/sec)/20 sec

3. Solving the problem gives an acceleration value of 0.5 m/sec2.

Now try on your own SHOWING ALL WORK AND CORRECT UNITS (like in above examples):

1. What is the speed of a rocket that travels 9000 meters in 12.12 seconds?

2. What is the speed of a jet plane that travels 528 meters in 4 seconds?

3. How long will your trip take (in hours) if you travel 350 km at an average speed of 80 km/hr?
4. How far (in meters) will you travel in 3 minutes running at a rate of 6 m/s?

5. A trip to Cape Canaveral, Florida takes 10 hours. The distance is 816 km. Calculate the average speed.

6. How many seconds will it take for a satellite to travel 450 km at a rate of 120 m/s?

7. What is the speed of a walking person in m/s if the person travels 1000 m in 20 minutes?

8. A ball rolls down a ramp for 15 seconds. If the initial velocity of the ball was 0.8 m/sec and the
final velocity was 7 m/sec, what was the acceleration of the ball ?

9. A meteoroid changed velocity from 1.0 km/s to 1.8 km/s in 0.03 seconds. What is the acceleration of the meteoroid?

10. A car going 50mph accelerates to pass a truck. Five seconds later the car is going 80mph. Calculate the
acceleration of the car.

11. The space shuttle releases a space telescope into orbit around the earth. The telescope goes from
being stationary to traveling at a speed of 1700 m/s in 25 seconds. What is the acceleration of
the satellite?

12. A ball is rolled at a velocity of 12 m/sec. After 36 seconds, it comes to a stop. What is the acceleration of the ball?

13. A dragster in a race accelerated from stop to 60 m/s by the time it reached the finish line. The dragster moved in a
straight line and traveled from the starting line to the finish line in 8.0
sec. What was the acceleration of the dragster?

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