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Basic Physics Practice Test: Describing Motion - Kinematics in One Dimension
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Basic Physics Practice Test: Describing Motion - Kinematics in One Dimension
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1. What must be your average speed in order to travel 350 km in 5.15 h?
2. A boat can move at 30 km/h in still water. How long will it take to move 12 km upstream in a river flowing 6.0 km/h?
3. Suppose that a car traveling to the West (-x directionbegins to slow down as it approaches a traffic light. Make a statement concerning its acceleration."
4. An object is thrown upward with a speed of 14 m/s on the surface of planet X where the acceleration due to gravity is 3.5 m/s2. What is the speed of the object after 8.0 s?
5. When an object is released from rest and falls in the absence of friction, which of the following is true concerning its motion?
6. If the position versus time graph of an object is a horizontal line, the object is
7. The slope of a position versus time graph gives
8. A ball is thrown downward from the top of a building with an initial speed of 25 m/s. It strikes the ground after 2.0 s. How high is the building?
9. A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly at 3.0 m/s2. A second car starts from rest 6.0 s later at the same point and accelerates uniformly at 5.0 m/s2. How long does it take the second car to overtake the first car?
10. Suppose that a car traveling to the East (+x directionbegins to slow down as it approaches a traffic light. Make a statement concerning its acceleration."
11. If the velocity versus time graph of an object is a straight line making an angle of 30 degrees with the time axis, the object is
12. The area under a curve in a velocity versus time graph gives
13. A car travels 90 km/h. How long does it take for it to travel 400 km?
14. Ball A is dropped from the top of a building. One second later, ball B is dropped from the same building. As time progresses, the difference in their speeds
15. Suppose that an object is moving with constant acceleration. Make a statement concerning its motion with respect to time.
16. If the velocity of an object is zero, does it mean that the acceleration is zero? Support your answer with an example.
17. Suppose a ball is thrown straight up, reaches a maximum height, then falls to its initial height. Make a statement about the direction of the velocity and acceleration as the ball is going up.
18. An object is thrown upward with a speed of 15 m/s on the surface of planet X where the acceleration due to gravity is 2.5 m/s2. How long does it take for the object to return to where it is thrown?
19. A jet fighter plane is launched from a catapult on an aircraft carrier. It reaches a speed of 42 m/s at the end of the catapult, and this requires 2.0 s. Assuming the acceleration is constant, what is the length of the catapult?
20. An object is moving with constant non-zero velocity in the +x axis. The position versus time graph of this object is
21. Under what condition is average velocity equal to the average of the object's initial and final velocity?
22. You are driving home on a weekend from school at 55 mi/h for 110 miles. It then starts to snow and you slow to 35 mi/h. You arrive home after driving 4 hours and 15 minutes. How far is your hometown from school?
23. An object is thrown upward with a speed of 12 m/s on the surface of planet X where the acceleration due to gravity is 1.5 m/s2. What is the maximum height reached by the object?
24. If you are driving 72 km/h along a straight road and you look to the side for 4.0 s, how far do you travel during this inattentive period?
25. An object is moving in a straight line with constant acceleration. Initially it is traveling at 16 m/s. Three seconds later it is traveling at 10 m/s. How far does it move during this time?