SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

QUESTIONNAIRE
PHYSICS
FIRST PERIOD
6th Grade
20112011-2012
2012
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COURSE:
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1. A passenger elevator travels from the first floor to the 60th floor, a distance of 210 m, in 35 s. What is the
elevators speed?
2. A motorcycle is moving at a constant speed of 40 km/h. How long does it take the motorcycle to travel a
distance of 10 km?
3. How far does a car travel in 0.75 h if it is moving at a constant speed of 88 km/h?
4. A long-distance runner is running at a constant speed of 5 m/s. How long does it take the runner to travel 1
km?
5. Describe the trip from your home to school using the words position, distance, displacement, and speed.
6. Explain whether the size of an objects displacement could be greater than the distance the objects travels.
7. Describe the motion represented by a horizontal line on a distance time graph.
8. Describe the difference between average speed and constant speed.
9. During a trip, can a cars trip instantaneous speed ever be greater than its average speed? Explain.
10. A car travels at a constant speed of 30.0 m/s for 0.80 h. Find the total distance traveled in km.
11. An airplane starts at rest and accelerates down the runway for 20 s. at the end of the runway, its velocity is 80
m/s north. What is its acceleration?
12. A cyclist starts at rest and accelerates at 0.5 m/

south for 20s. What is the cyclists final velocity?

13. A ball dropped and falls with an acceleration of 9.8 m/ downward. It hits the ground with a velocity of 49
m/s downward. How long did it take the ball to fall to the ground?
14. A squirrel has a mass of 0.5 kg. What is its weight in newton and pounds?
15. A boy weighs 400 N. What is his mass?
16. An astronaut has a mass of 100 kg and has a weight of 370 N on Mars. What is the gravitational strength on
Mars?
17. Describe two forces that would change the motion of a bicycle traveling along the road.
18. Why does coating surfaces with oil reduce friction between the surfaces?
19. Distinguish between the mass of an object and the objects weight.
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20. On earth, what is the weight of a large-screen TV that has a mass of 75 kg?
21. Two students push on a box in the same direction, and one student pushes in the opposite direction. What
is the ner force on the box if each student pushes with a force of 50 N?
22. What is 1 Newton?
23. What are the units to measure force?
24. What is the equivalence between 1 newton and 1 pound?
25. What is a pound?

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