Unit 1 WS 1 AS Physics

Work Sheet – 1 on Equations of Motion.

1. A typical commercial jet airliner needs to reach a speed of 90ms-1 before it can take
off. If such a plane spends 30s on the runway estimate.

(a) its acceleration

(b) the minimum runway length.

2. A car with an initial velocity of 30 ms-1 needs 44m to come to a complete stop.
Determine the stopping distance of this same car with an initial velocity of.

(a) 15 ms-1

(b) 10 ms-1

(c) 5 ms-1

3. Cars cruise down an expressway at 25 m/s. Engineers are designing an off-ramp in

an interchange with a deceleration of −2.0 ms-2 that lasts 3.0 s.

(a) What velocity will cars have at the end of the off-ramp?

(b) What minimum length should the ramp have?

(c) What maximum velocity could a car entering the off-ramp have and still be able
to exit at the intended velocity? (Assume an extreme deceleration of four times the
usual rate.)

A.K.M Saiful Latif Sultan/ O and A level Physics/ The Study Town ASJ22
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