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Velocity and Acceleration Worksheet
g=9.81m/s
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1. A Dolphin swims 0.50 m/s. How far has it traveled in 35 minutes?
2. My new Vespa motor scooter can go from the Faculty Parking Lot to
the ISS building, a distance of 650m, is only 32.5s. How fast is that?
3. Hiking at 0.75 m/s, you reach the waterfall at the end of the trail in 20
minutes. How far have you hiked?
4. A marble flickeded by a student travels 44.0m in 20.0s. What is its
average velocity?
5. How long will it take me to travel by the 56 kilometers of my daily
commute (from the end of my driveway to the Faculty Parking Lot)
by bicycle, assuming that I got up to the speed of 12 m/s by the end of
the driveway and maintained that same speed until I arrived in the
Faculty Parking Lot?
6. A toy car with an initial velocity of 5.0 m/s accelerates at 2.0 m/s .
What is its final velocity in 6.0 seconds?
7. A rocket-propelled grenade starts from rest with an acceleration of
180 m/s . What is its instantaneous velocity at a displacement of
45.0m?
8. A rock is thrown straight up at 19.6 m/s, disregarding air resistance,
how long before it reaches its maximum height and starts to fall back
down?
9. Your little brother spits off the top of the Washington Monument,
which is 177 m tall. Disregarding air resistance, how long before it
hits the pavement at ground level?
10.A bullet is shot straight up at a Kuwaiti Wedding with a muzzle
velocity of 250 m/s. Disregarding air resistance, how long before it
reaches its maximum height, and falls back down to the ground,
drilling straight through the Kuwaiti who fired the “Joy Shot”?
Extra Credit-10 Points
In Question # 10, what is the bullet’s Terminal Velocity?