PHYSICS CHECKPOINT 2

CHAPTER 13
SPEED

Speed: It is the ratio of the distance an object moves to the amount of time the
object moves.

The SI unit of speed is meters per second (m/s).

Average speed: It is the total distance traveled, d, divided by the time, t, it takes
to travel that distance.

Velocity is a description of both speed and direction of motion.

Accelerate:

In physics, accelerate has more than one meaning mentioned below:

a. To move faster

b. To move slower

c. To change direction

PROBLEM SOLVING:

1. A car covers a distance of 100 km in 5 hour, calculate its speed.

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2. A car covers 20 km in the first hour and cover 30 km in the last 4 hours. Find
its average speed.

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3. Calculate the speed of a car which travels 400m in 20s.

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4. If you travel 50m in 10s, what is your speed?

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5. A plane travels 895km in 2 hours. Calculate its speed.

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6. A woman jogs 10 kilometers in one hour, stops at a restaurant for one hour, and then
walks 10 kilometers in two hours. Plot a graph of her entire trip in the graph paper
below.

7. Lisa plotted time on the x-axis of a line graph and distance on the y-axis. What does the
slope of her graph represent?
Answers:

1. Given, Total distance = 100 km

Total time taken = 5 hour
We know that
Average Speed = Distance/time
= 100 km/5 hour = 20 km per hour

2. Given, Total distance covered = 20 km + 30 km = 50 km

Total time taken = 1 hour + 4 hour = 5 hour
We know that,
Average Speed = Distance/time
= 50/5 = 10 km per hour

3. s = 20 m/s

4. s = 5 m/s

5. s = 447.5 km/h

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7. Speed