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Velocity Lab Make Up
1. What is the speed of a rocket that travels 9000 meters in 12.12 seconds?
2. What is the speed of a jet plane that travels 528 meters in 4 seconds?
3. How long will your trip take (in hours) if you travel 350 km at an average speed of 80 km/hr?
4. How far (in meters) will you travel in 3 minutes running at a rate of 6 m/s?
5. A trip to Cape Canaveral, Florida takes 10 hours. The distance is 816 km. Calculatetheaveragespeed.
6. How many seconds will it take for a satellite to travel 450 km at a rate of 120 m/s?
7. What is the speed of a walking person in m/s if the person travels 1000 m in 20 minutes?
8. A ball rolls down a ramp for 15 seconds. If the initial velocity of the ball was 0.8 m/sec and the final velocity was 7 m/sec, what was the acceleration of the ball ?
9. A meteoroid changed velocity from 1.0 km/s to 1.8 km/s in 0.03 seconds. What is the acceleration of the meteoroid?
10. A car going 50mph accelerates to pass a truck. Five seconds later the car is going 80mph. Calculate the acceleration of the car.
11. The space shuttle releases a space telescope into orbit around the earth. The telescope goes from being stationary to traveling at a speed of 1700 m/s in 25 seconds. What is the acceleration of the satellite?
12. A ball is rolled at a velocity of 12 m/sec. After 36 seconds, it comes to a stop. What is the acceleration of the ball?
13. In a boat race, Dan drove his motorboat over the 1000-meter course from start to finish in 40 seconds. What was Dan’s speed during the race?
14. A dragster in a race accelerated from stop to 60 m/s by the time it reached the finish line. The
dragster moved in a straight line and traveled from the starting line to the finish line in 8.0 sec. What was the acceleration of the dragster?
15. In a competition, an athlete threw a flying disk 139 meters through the air. While in flight, the disk traveled at an average speed of 13.0 m/s. How long did the disk remain in flight?
16. Sound travels much faster in water than air. It takes 4.2 seconds for the sound of an explosion to travel underwater to a diver 6,006 m. away. What is the speed of the sound in water?
17. A car traveling at 12 m/s slows down at a constant rate for 4 seconds until it stops. What is its acceleration?
18. A runner covers the last straight stretch of a race in 4s. During that time, he speeds up from 5m/s to 9 m/s. What is the runner’s acceleration in this part of the race?
19. A pebble fell 50 m from a bridge to the water below. The pebble entered the water at a speed of 19.6 m/s. How long did it take the pebble to reach the water from the bridge?
20. How long does it take a jet to accelerate from 200 m/s to 300 m/s with a constant acceleration of 50 m/s?