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Linear + Projectile Motion -1

1. How long does it take a car to travel 30 metres if it accelerates from rest at 2.0ms -2 ?

2. What is the stopping distance of a car travelling at 28ms-1 (100km/h=1.0 ×102 km/h) if the
reaction time of the driver is 0.50 seconds and then the driver applies the brakes with the car
decelerating at a rate of 6.0ms-2 ?

(a) Reaction Distance

(b) Braking Distance

(c) Total Braking Distance

3. Suppose a ball is dropped from a 70m high tower. How far will it have fallen after 3.0s?
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4. A person throws a ball upwards into the air with an initial velocity of 15ms-1. Calculate how high
it goes and how long the ball is in the air before it comes back to the throwers hand.
(a) Time of Flight

(b) Height

5. A bird can fly at 30km/h. How long does it take to fly 235km?

6. A rock thrown horizontally at a large bell 50m away is heard to hit the bell 4.5s later. What was
the speed of the rock? (neglect the effect of gravity and time taken for the sound to travel to the
observer).
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7. At high speeds, a particular car is capable of an acceleration of about 0.50ms-2. At this rate how
long does it take to accelerate from 90km/h to 100km/h?

8. An advertisement claims that a sports car is able to stop, from a speed of 100km/h, within 45m.
What is its acceleration in ms-2? How many “g’s” is this?

9. A stone is dropped from the top of a cliff. It is seen to hit the ground below after 5.5s. How high
is the cliff?

10. A trout jumps a waterfall 2.5m high. With what minimum speed did it leave the water below to
reach the top?
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11. When 500m from a station and travelling at 60kmh-1, a train driver notices a stationary train on
the same track at the platform. The brakes are applied and the train decelerates uniformly at 0.3ms -2.
What happens?

12. Two cars, each travelling at the speed limit of 60kmh-1, collide head on. This is equivalent to a
car being dropped from what height? (assume a=10ms-2)

13. What will the resultant path be of a ship travelling due North at 10ms-1 if there is a tide of 3ms-1
towards the east?

14. A stone dropped from the top of a cliff is heard to hit the water below 5 seconds later. Calculate:

(a) the velocity of the stone just before it hits the water.
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(b) its average velocity during this time.

(c) the height of the cliff (g=9.8ms -2 )

15. The photograph below represents an object launched at the Earth’s surface, with negligible air
resistance. The ball has an actual size of 10 cm and the time between each image was 0.02 s.

(a) Use the diagram to verify that the horizontal component of the velocity remains constant.

(b) Use the diagram to estimate the angle at which the projectile is launched.
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(c) Estimate the initial vertical component of the launch velocity.

(d) State the velocity at which the object lands. 5 m s-1

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10 m
s-1