Suppose a jogger leaves her house and jogs north 300 feet to the street-lamp on the corner.

She
turns west, jogs another 400 ft, and gets to the oak tree 2 minutes after leaving home. We will
calculate the jogger's average velocity for the 2 minutes. (See diagram)
(a) Which of the three distances given in the figure is the displacement d?
(b) What is the jogger's average velocity?
(c) What is the total distance (not displace-ment) traveled by the jogger?
(d) What is the average speed (not velocity) during the 2 minutes?
Answers: (a) 500 feet; (b) 250 ft/min in a direction between north and west (c) 700 feet (d) 350
ft/min

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Suppose a car starts from rest and accelerates at 2 m/s' for 3 seconds. This means that the car
gains _________________of speed during each _________________
Answer: 2 m/s... second
Suppose that, starting from rest, your new truck accelerates at the rate of 5 m/s and it continues
this acceleration for 8 seconds. What will be its speed at the end of the 8 seconds?
If a car takes 5 seconds to increase its speed from 30 km/h to 50 km/h, what is its acceleration? .
If you walk with a speed of 2 meter per second, how far do you walk in 12 seconds?
(a) If an elephant runs for half an hour at a speed of 6 km/h, what distance (in m) does it cover?
(b) What is the average speed (in m/s) of a vehicle that covers 250 km in 2.5 hours?
Identify the two descriptions below as speed or velocity.
(a) 20 meters/second _______________________
(b) 20 meters/second northeast _______________________
(c) How does velocity differ from speed?
Answers: (a) speed; (b) velocity; (c) Velocity includes a direction.

Basic physics a self-teaching guide by Karl

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