KINEMATICS REVIEW SHEET
Name: ____________________________ Date: ________________ Period: _____
PART A: PROBLEMS
1. A bicycle averages 4.5 m/s while traveling for 10 minutes. How far does it travel?
2. What is the acceleration of a car that speeds up from 12 m/s to 30 m/s in 15 seconds?
3. If a car can accelerate at 3.2 m/s², how long will it take to speed up from 15 m/s to 22 m/s?
4. A car going 19 m/s jams on its brakes, slowing down to 8.4 m/s and leaving skid marks 24.6 meters
long. What was its acceleration?
5. Suppose a planner is designing an airport for small planes. One kind of airplane that might use this
airfield must reach a speed before takeoff of 100 km/hr and can accelerate at 2.0 m/s². If the runway
is 150 m long, can this airplane reach the proper speed to take off?
6. How long does it take a car to travel 30.0 m if it accelerates constantly from rest at a rate of 2.00
m/s²?
7. A baseball pitcher throws a fastball with a speed of 44m/s. Estimate the average acceleration of the
ball during the throwing motion. It is observed that in throwing the baseball, the pitcher
accelerates the ball through a displacement of about 3.5-m from behind the body to the point where
it is released.
8. A ball is dropped from a window 24 meters high. How long will it take to reach the ground?
9. An arrow is fired straight up, leaving the bow at 15 m/s. If air resistance is negligible, how high will
the arrow rise?
10. A firefighter drops from a window into a net. If the window is 34 meters above the net, at what
speed does the firefighter hit the net?
11. A ball is allowed to roll from rest down an inclined plane, and the distances are marked every 2.0 s.
If the second mark is made 1.6 m from the starting point, where are the first and fourth marks?
12. Suppose that a ball is dropped from a tower 70.0 m high. How far will it have fallen after 1.00, 2.00,
and 3.00 s?
PART B: QUESTIONS
13. A graph is plotted showing the velocity of a car as a function of time. If the graph is a straight line,
it means that ___________________________________.
14. The slope of a position-time graph will indicate __________________________.
15. The area under a velocity-time graph will indicate ________________________.
16. The slope of a velocity-time graph will indicate __________________________.
17. The area under an acceleration-time graph will indicate ___________________.
18. What are the four kinematic equations?
19. What is the value for the acceleration of gravity?
20. Explain symmetry in the motion of freely falling bodies.
21. If you drop a penny and a feather in a vacuum (no air resistance) which would hit the ground first?
What would happen if you dropped both of these in your classroom?
22. If you drive around in a circle at a constant speed, do you have a change in acceleration? Explain.
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