Addu High School DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE

Physics
Hithadhoo/ Addu

Topic: Graph of motion Worksheet

1. The table below is a table of data from an experiment measuring the

variation of speed with time for a car.

(a) Calculate the acceleration between t = 0 s and t = 2.0 s

(b) Calculate the instantaneous acceleration! at t = 8.0 s.
(c) Calculate the acceleration between t = 4.0 s and t = 7.0 s
(d) Calculate the instantaneous acceleration at t = 9.0 s.
(e) Determine the distance the player travels between t = 0 s and t = 6.0s
(a) Graph the data on a speed-time graph.
(f) What is the total distance covered by the player between t = 0 s and
(b) Find the speed of the car at 35.0 s
t = 14.0s.
(c) Find how long the car took to decelerate from 30.0 to 10.0 m s-1.
(g) What is the displacement between t = 0 s and t = 14.0 s
(d) Determine the acceleration at 70.0 s.
(e) How far did the car travel during the time 110.0 s?
(f) What is the gradient of a graph? Identify the information the gradient

gives us in displacement-time and velocity time graphs.

3. The graph below is an idealised velocity-time graph for a sprinter.
(g) Describe how displacement is determined from a graph.
(h) Explain why we use a 'line of best fit' with a graph.

2. The graph shows a velocity-time graph for a soccer player moving in

a straight line during part of a match.

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(a) What is the initial acceleration of the sprinter?
(b) Over what distance did the sprinter race?
(c) What was the average velocity of the sprinter for the entire race?
4. The graph below represents the depth of a scuba diver during a 15
minute dive.
(a) During which period of the dive was the diver ascending the
quickest?
(b) How long did the diver stay at the bottom of the sea, a depth of 18m?
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(c) What was the vertical velocity of the diver during his descent?
5. The graph below represents the displacement of a drag racing car
along a straight track.
(a) Calculate the instantaneous velocity of the car 12 seconds after
the start.
(b) Calculate the velocity of the car 6.0 seconds after the start.
(c) sketch a velocity-time graph for the car over the same period of
time
(d) Without any calculation state what the area beneath your velocity-
time graph represents and what the value should be.[
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