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4. Which of these speed calculations is correct? A. Acar that travels 100 km in 2 hours has an average speed of 50 kmv/h, B A fish that swims 20 m in 5 seconds has an average speed of Smm/s, © Arocke an aver hat travels 100 km in 30 minutes has speed of 200 km/h. D A ball that rolls 2 m in 5 seconds has an average speed of 0.4 mis. 21 2 Here are some units: km, m/s, kan/s, h, 5, ™ ‘a Which are units of speed? ul b. Which are units of distance? a y © Which are units of time? 3 Agirlis cycling ata steady speed 2 | + 10 distance (km) 2m © 8 8 100 | time min) 120 149 @ How can you tell from the gra moe graph that the | 'b How fast is she travelling? el 4 Choos : Choose the best definition of average ms F 3 hhow far vou travel per second oa b the total di aa ie You travel divided by i the URED MI NOTE ‘ue hour ou travel divided by 4, Ee ju takes tr Ee ndmother in an * pata wont 10 WSIS TTT 440 ka a distance > hours. How fast did the 2 ney 10° a Thejour by pliner ences had to speed up, bp when the Pa Vie word for speeding up? What is ane had to fly into e the Pl home tt would that have on speed? b 2 average ae tehing his favourite football team, ramecl was waichl Oe y at their st Play ee ker run the Jength of the field 110 mor 0.1 he striker run? Q h 1 km, in 10 seconds. which 1s How fast did t ed home, a distance of km in b Jameel walks ee jo minutes. How fast did he walk 5 inexperiments itis important to make tnensurements that are both precise and accurate Wihieh of these measurements of time is the most precist Siseconds 514seconds 5 seconds ‘Aadi went to visit Dev. The graph shows how Aadi's distance from home varies with time, 3500 4 distance from home (m) Sere: to Dev's? 8 does Aadi Stop on the way ane. Ts it Bee TO™ Aadi’s home to Forces and me ‘eHow fast does Aadi walk ° omDev. hoe pnoipar back a eee i] 80 12.000 | t Tabled ‘@ Which two cables of data can be used to | plot line graphs? 1 b Which two tables of data can be used to plot bar charts or pie charts? ou] © What has Nadia missed out of her tables? [1] Which of the variables are categoric? ty € Name one of the continuous variables. a 9 A tortoise travelled across a path 1 m wide in 10 minutes. It then rested for 2 minutes and went across a 2 m wide piece of grass in the next ‘1 Here is a speed-time graph for a car 8 minutes. zg a How fast was it travelling when it crossed z the path? [2] & c bb How fast was it travelling when it crossed the grass? (21 a 0 time What was the average speed for the whole journey? [2] Are these statements true or false? 10 Nadia is looking at some information about a. The cars stationary in section B. ran) scootersyinashows inforn real ay oO car is moving with steady ower than the steady speed 1 8 1b eons ball om 6 ould have used a table to Draw the table and put 2 t) BI roe bee es 1 Write Text to the statements that are true. Write F next to the statements that are false. Then write the corrected versions Of the statements that are false. 4 To calculate speed you need to know distance and force. b IF you use the total distance and total time, then the speed you can calculate is the average speed. © Speed is measured in units such as kilometres per hour (km/h) and newtons per second (N/s). d Assteady speed is a Speed that is changing all the time. Correcteq Versions of false statements: 2 Acyclist takes 16 seconds to travel 200 metres, a Calculate her Speed. Is this the speed at the start, at the finish, or the average? b Explain your answer, 3 Read the report below, Some of the world’s fastest athletes Competed at the Summer Olympic Games in London in August 2012. One of these athletes, David Rudisha of Kenya, ran 800 metres in 1 minute 41 seconds to win the gold medal. This was a new world record. In the same Olympic Games teenager Kirani James of Grenada won a gold medal by running 400 metres in 44 seconds, a_ How long did David Rudisha take to run 800 m in seconds? b What was David Rudisha's average speed for the 800 i | 1 Look atthe graphs & to C below. a a x“ 18 1« Eu £10. E 8 ‘ s! = 4 a 2. fe ; Me {pee B OPES Ga Ered Ceiatiseiasw sits as era ee teed ed tee 4. Calculate the speed for each one,

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