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Worksheet 1 Acceleration and Projectiles

The document contains a worksheet focused on acceleration and projectile motion, featuring various physics problems related to motion, speed, and trajectory. It includes scenarios involving a car approaching a stoplight, two sprinters in a race, a stone thrown vertically, a placekicker's football kick, and a basketball shot from a cliff. Each problem requires calculations and explanations regarding motion dynamics and projectile trajectories.

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Worksheet 1 Acceleration and Projectiles

The document contains a worksheet focused on acceleration and projectile motion, featuring various physics problems related to motion, speed, and trajectory. It includes scenarios involving a car approaching a stoplight, two sprinters in a race, a stone thrown vertically, a placekicker's football kick, and a basketball shot from a cliff. Each problem requires calculations and explanations regarding motion dynamics and projectile trajectories.

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Worksheet #1

Acceleration + Projectiles

1. Driving down the road at 18 m/s, an AP Physics student notices that the stoplight ahead
has turned yellow… and will turn red in 2.0 seconds. The intersection starts exactly 50 m
ahead of the car’s current position and is 25 m in length (image above). To avoid a ticket,
the student does not want to end up in the intersection at the time of t = 2.0 s. This car can
speed up at 6 m/s2 or slow down at 3 m/s2. Can the student avoid the intersection? What
should he/she do? Explain:

2. In a 100-m race, accelerating uniformly, Laura takes 2.00s and Heather 3.00s to attain
their maximum speeds, which they each maintain for the rest of the race. They cross the
finish line simultaneously, both setting a world record of 10.4s.

a. Draw a single position vs. time graph that tracks the motion of each runner.

b. What is the maximum acceleration of each sprinter?

5.3 3.7
Laura m/s2 Heather m/s2

c. What are their respective maximum speeds?

10.6 11.2
Laura m/s Heather m/s

d. Which sprinter is ahead at the 6.00-s mark, and by how much?


2.6
___________ by m

e. What is the maximum distance by which Heather is behind Laura, and at what
time does this occur?
4.50
m at t= s

3. A stone is thrown vertically upward. On its way up is passes point A with a speed v, and
point B, 3.0 m higher than A, with speed ½v.

a. Calculate the speed v.


8.85
m/s

b. Calculate the maximum height reached by the stone above point B.


1.0
m
4. A placekicker must kick a football from a point 36.0 m (about 40 yards) from the
crossbar, which is 3.05 m high. When kicked, the ball leaves the ground with a speed of
21.0 m/s at an angle of 50.0° to the horizontal.

(a) By how much does the ball clear or fall short of clearing the crossbar?
+5.0
m

(b) Does the ball approach the crossbar while still rising or while falling? Explain:

5. Prove that the expression for the maximum range of a projectile in terms of only Vo, g
and θ would be:

(a) What angle would produce the maximum range of a projectile? How can you tell just
by using this equation?

6. A student stands near the edge of a 383 m high cliff, shooting his basketball at a 40
degree angle above horizontal and with an initial velocity of 10.7 m/s.

(a) At what angle will it enter the water?


5.34 o

(b) At what velocity will it enter the water?


87.6 m/s

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