Name: _________________________________________________ Chapter 2 Study Guide
Period: ____________
Test on Friday, Sept. 11
Use each term on the right once to complete the following statements.
_______ 1. The speed and direction of an object at a particular instant is
the ___F___.
_______ 2. Another term given for the size of a quantity is the __G____.
_______ 3. The __I____is the location of an object relative to an origin.
_______ 4. A __M____is a quantity with both magnitude and direction.
_______ 5. A system that defines the zero point of the variable you are
studying is the ___B___.
_______ 6. The zero point is also called the __H____.
_______ 7. A graph with time data on the horizontal axis and position
data on the vertical axis is a __J____.
_______ 8. A vector that represents the sum of two or more vectors is a
__K____.
_______ 9. A scalar quantity that is the length, or size, of the
displacement vector is __D____.
_______ 10. A quantity that has only magnitude is ___L___.
_______ 11. The location of an object at a particular instant is ___E___.
_______ 12. The vector quantity that defines the distance and direction
between two positions is __C____.
_______ 13. The total distance covered divided by the total time used is
called the __A____.
A. average speed
B. coordinate system
C. displacement
D. distance
E. instantaneous position
F.
instantaneous velocity
G. magnitude
H. origin
I.
position
J.
position-time graph
K. resultant
L. scalar
M. vector
Use the graph on the right once to answer the following questions.
14. What quantity is represented on the x-axis?
TIME
15. What quantity is represented on the y-axis?
POSITION
16. What is the position of the object at 6.0 s?
9.0 m
17. How much time has passed when the object is at 6.0 m?
4.0s
18. How far does the object travel for every second it is in motion?
1.5 m
19. If the object continues at this speed, when will the object reach 18.0 m?
V
d 1.5m

 1.5m / s
t 1.0 s
20. Where will the object be after 300 s?
v  1.5m / s
d ?
t  300 s
d  vt  (1.5m / s )(300 s )  450m
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Calculate the answers to the following questions. Show your work and check for correct units
and sig figs before circling your answers.
21. What is the average velocity (in m/s) of a car that travels 450 km in 9.0 hours?
V= 14 m/s
22. How far (in meters) has a cyclist traveled if she has been moving at 30 m/s for 5.0
minutes?
D= 9000m
23. A car travels at 55 km/h for 6.0 hours. How far (in meters) does it travel?
D= 330,000m or 3.3x105m
24. A missile travels 2500 km in 2.2 hours. What is its velocity (in m/s)?
V= 320m/s
25. How many minutes will it take a runner to finish an 11km race at 18 km/h?
T= 37 min
26. A motorcyclist travels 350 km from home on the first day of a trip. The second day he
travels at 75 km/h for 8.0 hours. How far (in km) is he from home at the end of the
second day?
D= 950 km
27. A businesswoman on a trip flies a total of 23,000 km. The first day she traveled 4000 km,
the second day 11,000 km, and on the final day she was on a plane that could travel at
570 km/h. How long was she on the plane the final day?
T= 10 hrs
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