ASIAN HIGH SCHOOL (Van Thanh Campus)

Physics Pre-Intermediate Level

Directions: DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ON THIS PAPER. WRITE ALL ANSWERS on a QUIZ
PAPER only. Finish all within 40 mins.

I. IDENTIFICATION (0.2 pt/item, 1 pt)

Choose the words from the box.

Distance-time graph Acceleration relative motion

speed instantaneous speed
1. Describes how fast an object is travelling compared to another.
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2. Explains how quickly an object’s speed is changing.
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3. It measures how far an object is in a particular time.
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4. This approach or presentation is useful for showing how something moves.
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5. Illustrates the speed at which an object travels during the race or transit.
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II. TRUE/FALSE (0.2 pt/item, 1 pt)

1. Speed is barely related to relativeness.
2. The straight line in the graph, from the distance to a time, describes an object as stationary.
3. You can work out the average speed by the total speeds 1 and 2 divided by the total time 1
and 2.
4. Faster Vehicles will have steeper lines than slower vehicles with a less steep distance-time
graph.
5. A person can achieve 10.44 m/s in a 100-meter dash Olympic race event.

III. QUESTION AND ANSWERS (0.2 pt/item, 1 pt)

1. What two SI units (symbols) do we use for measuring speed? (0.2 pt)
2. Give one best example where we can practically see instantaneous speed. (0.2 pt)
3. Draw A SIMPLE distance-time graph for the ACCELERATION of a ball dropped on the 7 th
floor of an Asian High school building. (0.2 pt)
4. What is usually placed on the y-axis and x-axis lines in a distance-time graph? (0.4 pt)

IV. PROBLEM-SOLVING

Speed (show your solutions)

1. It takes Serina 0.25 hours to drive to school. Her route is 16 km long. What is Serina’s
average speed on her drive to school? (1.25 pts)

2. An athlete threw a flying disk 139 meters through the air in a competition. While in flight,
the disk travelled at an average speed of 13.0 m/s. How long did the disk remain in the
air? (1.25 pts)
3. A plane travelled for about 2.5 hours at a 1200 km/hr speed. How far did it travel? (1.25
pts)

Distance-time graph

a. Drawing a distance-time graph (1.25 pts)

Plot the journey of a sledgedog race in a distance-time graph. READ the tables well.

MOVING DISTANCE TIME TAKEN STOPS OTHER INFORMATION

OBJECT TRAVELLED FOR A
JOURNEY
Iditarod trail 1100 km 10 days Rest for Some parts of the route
sled at least 8 are on flatter land, where
hours dogs travel further daily.

b. Interpreting a distance-time graph (0.2 each, 2 pts)

The distance-time graph shows class 8A’s journey to the zoo. They stopped for a picnic on
the way to the zoo.

a. What time did the bus leave

school?
b. What time did they stop for
a picnic?
c. How far had they travelled
when they stopped for a
picnic?
d. What is the average speed
from 9 am to 10 am?
e. What’s the total distance
class 8A covered? How long
have they traveled?