1D Kinematics Review
Physics Honors
Test Date- 9/18/19
Sample Questions
1. Define velocity, acceleration, speed, displacement, instantaneous speed and distance.
2. What is a scalar quantity? What is a vector quantity?
3. A motorcycle travels across a road and increases its speed from 30 m/s to 45 m/s in a distance of 100 m. If the acceleration is constant, how much time elapses while the motorcycle covers the distance?
4. The position of a particle moving along the x axis is given by x= (38 + 19𝑡 − 8.0𝑡 2
). What is the average acceleration during the time interval t=3.0 s to t= 17.0 s?
Topics to understand
1. Average velocity, acceleration and speed.
2. Being able to solve problems using all three kinematics equations.
3. Graphing velocity vs time, acceleration vs time, and displacement vs time for an object given motion.
4. Being able to convert a velocity vs time, acceleration vs time, and displacement vs time graph into any other motion graph
5. Define vertical motion in terms of the apex, free fall, and the gravitational constant g
6. Explain what the slope of a velocity vs time, acceleration vs time, and displacement vs time means and what the area under the curve of those graphs means as well