Ph150 Exercise #6

Displacement, Average Speed, Average Velocity, Acceleration

1. Abigail walks around three sides of a square park. If her final displacement was 25 m
west, what was her total distance traveled?

2. Ben is jogging around a circular jogging track of diameter 25 m. He starts at the

north end of the track and starts jogging clockwise. Once hes gone halfway, what is
his displacement? What is his distance traveled? If his average speed is 5 m/s, what
is his average velocity?

3. A Lamborghini can accelerate from rest to sixty miles per hour (96 km/h) in 3.6
seconds. Lets say the car is accelerating due south.
a. What is the cars acceleration?
b. What is the cars average velocity?

4. Cheryl drives north at 35 km/h for 1.0 hours, then drives at 45 km/h for 2.0 hours in
the opposite direction.
a. Is her acceleration constant through the trip?
b. What is her displacement after this trip? What distance has she traveled?
c. What is her average velocity throughout the trip?

5. A cyclist is accelerating at 1.5 m/s2 to the south. If the cyclists initial speed is 6.0
m/s in the same direction and he accelerates for 4.0 s, what is his final velocity?

6. A car is traveling at 45 km/h due north along the Pat Bay Highway. Seeing a red
light ahead, the driver slows the car to 25 km/h. If the acceleration of the car during
this time is constant, with magnitude 0.69 m/s2, how long did it take the car to
decelerate?
 Ph150 Exercise #6

1. d = 75 m

2. d = 25 m south
d = circumference = d = 39.27 m = 39 m
If vav = 5 m/s, then the time taken is t = d/vav = 39.27m / 5 m/s = 7.85 s = 8 s. So,
v = d/t = 25 m/7.85 s = 3.18 m/s = 3 m/s south

3. a = 7.4 m/s2 south

vav = 48 km/h south (or 13 m/s south)

4. No, Cheryls acceleration isnt constant throughout the trip (she accelerates as she
turns around).
d = 55 km south, d = 125 m
vav = 55 km/3.0 h = 18.3 km/h = 18 km/h south

5. vf = 12 m/s south

6. t = 8.1 s