Physics - Velocity and Acceleration

Practice Problems

Problem 1 You roll a ball against a wall that is 5.2 meters away from you. The ball bounces off the wall and rolls back 3.4 meters towards you before it stops. What is the total distance covered by the ball? What is the displacement of the ball? Problem 2 You ride your bike a distance of 135.7 meters down the street in 33.5 seconds. You turn around and ride the same distance back to where you started. The return trip takes 42.2 seconds. What was your speed and what was your velocity over the course of the entire bike ride? Problem 3 A car drives 253 meters down a road for 57 seconds. It stops and then turns around and drives that only 83 meters back in 22 seconds. What is the velocity of the car for the first part of the trip? What is the velocity of the car for the second part of the trip? What is the velocity for the car for the entire trip? Problem 4 A driver drives his car down a long, straight country road at 72 km/hr. If he drives in that direction for 33.2 minutes, how far does he drive? Problem 5 A car and a semi are approaching each other on a 2-lane road. The car is traveling at 52 mph, and the semi is traveling at 65 mph. If you were standing at the side of the road watching the situation, what velocity would you observe for the car? What velocity would you observe for the semi? What velocity does the driver of the car observe for the semi? What velocity does the driver of the semi observe for the car? Problem 6 A runner is moving with a velocity of 4.2 m/sec to the west. The runner hears someone honking at him and slows down immediately. He stops after 2.7 seconds. What was his acceleration? Problem 7 A car slams on the brakes to avoid hitting an obstacle in the road. If the car has a maximum deceleration of 4.2 m/sec2 and it takes 15 seconds for the car to stop, how fast was the car initially traveling? 2011 Laura Glassel lizzietutoring.blogspot.com