Kinematics A car travels up a hill at a constant speed of 37 km/h and returns down the hill at a constant speed of 66 km/h.

Calculate the average speed for the whole trip.

Is it possible that the car could have accelerated to 55mph within 268 meters if the car can only accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 15 seconds?

A car travels up a hill at a constant speed of 37 km/h and returns down the hill at a constant speed of 66 km/h. Calculate the average speed for the whole trip.

An archer shoots an arrow with a velocity of 30 m/s at an angle of 20 degrees with respect to the horizontal. An assistant standing on the level ground 30 m downrange from the launch point throws an apple straight up with the minimum initial speed necessary to meet the path of the arrow. What is the initial speed of the apple and at what time after the arrow is launched should the apple be thrown so that the arrow hits the apple?

A box sits on a horizontal wooden board. The coefficient of static friction between the box and the board is 0.5. You grab one end of the board and lift it up, keeping the other end of the board on the ground. What is the angle between the board and the horizontal direction when the box begins to slide down the board?

A 8 kg block is at rest on a horizontal floor. If you push horizontally on the 8 kg block with a force of 20 N, it just starts to move. a) What is the coefficient of static friction?

b) A 10.0 kg block is stacked on top of the 8 kg block. What is the magnitude F of the force, acting horizontally on the 8 kg block as before, that is required to make the two blocks start to move?

A car is accelerating at 12 m/s2 . Find its acceleration in km/h2 .

We drive a distance of 1 km at 16 km/h. Then we drive an additional distance of 1 km at 32 km/h. What is our average speed?

An airliner reaches its takeoff speed of 163 mph in 36.2 s. What is the magnitude of its average acceleration.

A car is initially traveling due north at 23 m/s. a) Find the velocity of the car after 4 s if its acceleration is 2 m/s2 due north.

b) Find the velocity of the car after 4 s if its acceleration is instead 2 m/s2 due south.

From the dimensional analysis find the time t it takes for a ball to fall from a height h.

You are driving along the street at the speed limit (35mph) and 50 meters before reaching a traffic light you notice it becoming yellow. You accelerate to make the traffic light within the 3 seconds it takes for it to turn red. What is your speed as you cross the intersection? Assume that the acceleration is constant and that there is no air resistance.

How high can a human throw a ball if he can throw it with initial velocity 90 mph.

Mr. Letourneau is flying his broom stick parallel to the ground. He undergoes two consecutive displacements. The first is 100 km 10 degrees west of north, and the second is 120 km 50 degrees east of north. What is the magnitude of the broom stick's displacement?

In reaching her destination, a backpacker walks with an average velocity of 1 m/s, due west. This average velocity results, because she hikes for 6 km with an average velocity of 3 m/s due west, turns around, and hikes with an average velocity of 0.3 m/s due east. How far east did she walk (in kilometers)?

It takes you 9.5 minutes to walk with an average velocity of 1.2 m/s to the north from the bus stop to museum entrance. What is your displacement?

What is 3.3 slug in kilograms?

An athlete swims the length of a 50.0-m pool in 20.0s and makes the return trip to the starting position in 22.0s. Determine her average velocities in a) the first half of the swim,

b) the second half of the swim, and

c) the round trip.

A speedboat increases its speed uniformly from 20 m/s to 30 m/s in a distance of 200m. Find a) the magnitude of its acceleration and

b) the time it takes the boat to travel the 200-m distance.

The car drives straight off the edge of a cliff that is 57 m high. The investigator at the scene of the accident notes that the point of impact is 130 m from the base of the cliff. How fast was the car traveling when it went over the cliff?

An aircraft has a lift-off of 120km/h. a) What minimum constant acceleration does the aircraft require if it is to be airborne after a takeoff run of 240m?

b) How long does it take the aircraft to become airborne?

A ball is thrown vertically upward with a speed of 25.0m/s. a) How high does it rise?

b) How long does it take to reach its highest point?

c) How long does the ball take to hit the ground after it reaches its highest point?

d) What is its velocity when it returns to the level from which it started?

A tortoise and a hare are in a road race to defend the honor of their breed. The tortoise crawls the entire 1000 meters at a speed of 0.2 m/s. The rabbit runs the first 200 meters at 2 m/s, stops to take a nap for 1.3 hours, and awakens to finish the last 800 meters with an average speed of 3 m/s. Who wins the race and by how much time?

The slowest animal ever discovered is a crab found in the Red Sea that travels an average speed of 5.7 km/year. How long will it take this crab to travel 1 meter?

A "moving sidewalk" in a busy airport terminal moves 1 m/s and is 200 m long. A passenger steps onto one end and walks, in the same direction as the sidewalk is moving, at a rate of 2.0 m/s relative to the moving sidewalk. How much time does it take the passenger to reach the opposite end of the walkway?

Assume it takes 8 minutes to fill a 35.0 gal gasoline tank. (1 U.S. gal = 231 cubic inches). a) Calculate the rate at which the tank is filled in gallons per second.

b) Calculate the rate at which the tank is filled in cubic meters per second.

c) Determine the time interval, in hours, required to fill a

volume at the same rate.

A plane flies 955 km due east, then turns due north and flies another 469 km. Draw an x-y axis at the starting point with the positive x-axis pointing east, and determine the polar coordinates of the plane's finale position.

A car travels east at 89 km/h for 1 h. It then travels 26 east of north at 141 km/h for 1 h. a) What is the average speed for the trip?

b) What is the average velocity for the trip?

If a particle's position is given by x = 6 12t + 4t2 (where t is in seconds, and x is in meters), what is it's velocity at t=1s? a) What is its speed at t=1s?

b) Is there ever an instant when the velocity is 0? If so, give the time.

The captain of a plane wishes to proceed due west. The cruising speed of the plane is 245 m/s relative to the air. A weather report indicates that a 38-m/s wind is blowing from the south to the north. In what direction, measured to due west, should the pilot head the plane relative to the air?