Year 11 IB Physics MOTION ASSIGNMENT 1 Name:_______________________________

1. Copy and complete the following table:

Quantity SI Unit Vector or Scalar
Velocity
Displacement
Mass
Force
(8 marks)
2. A thunderclap is heard 7.0 s after a lightning flash is seen. If the speed of sound is 340 ms-1, how far
away in km was the lightning flash.

(2 marks)
3. Light from the sun takes 8 minutes and 18 seconds to reach the earth. If the speed of light is 3.0 x 108
ms-1, what is the distance between the earth and the sun in metres?

(2 marks)
4. Sally walks 150 m north at 1.0 ms-1 and then 200m east at 2.0 ms-1.
(a) For what amount of time did she walk?

(b) Use a vector diagram to calculate her displacement from her origin.

(c) Compare her average speed and average velocity.

(8 marks)
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5. The graph below shows the position of an object over a 10 second period.

(a) Describe the motion of this object (no calculations are necessary.)

(b) When is the objects velocity positive?

(c) Sketch a graph of velocity against time over the same period of motion. Show all calculations that
you have used to develop this graph.

(d) Sketch a distance-time graph for this object over the same time period.

(9 marks)
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6. An object travels as shown below. What is its:

(a) Displacement over the 7. 0 seconds?

(b) Distance covered over the 7.0 seconds?

(c) Average velocity and average speed over the whole 7.0 seconds.

(d) Sketch a graph of acceleration against time over the same period of motion. Show all calculations
that you have used to develop this graph.

(10 marks)
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7. Sketch the following graphs:
(a) A velocity-time graph for a car travelling at a constant velocity along a straight road.

(b) A velocity-time graph for a ball dropped from a one metre height that then bounces twice.
(consider upwards velocity to be positive and downwards negative)

(c) A speed-time graph for (b).

(d) A velocity-time graph for a car that accelerates from start to reach a constant velocity in 10 s.

(e) A speed-time graph for a car that slows down from 60 km per hour to a halt over a period of 10
seconds.

(10 marks)

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8. A fighter plane lands on an aircraft carrier at a speed of 300 km per hour takes 25 seconds to come to
rest.
(a) Determine its landing speed in ms-1.

(b) Determine its average deceleration.

(c) When the same plane takes off, it accelerates from rest at 9.9 ms-2. If it takes 2.3 seconds to reach its
take off velocity:
(i) Determine this velocity.

(ii) Calculate the minimum length of runway that it must have to take off.

(7 marks)
Question 9
Read the article and graph below and then answer the accompanying questions:

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a) What was Johnson’s greatest speed (careful now- it’s in the article and not the graph!) in this 400 m
run:
(i) in km/h

(ii) in ms-1?

b) What seems to be so unusual in the 200 m to 300 m section of the race when he was ‘pulling away
from the competition’?

c) During which interval of the race was Johnson’s acceleration the greatest? Explain why this would
be the case.

d) During which interval of the race was Johnson decelerating the most? Explain why this would be the
case.

e) Calculate Johnson’s average speed for the whole race in both kmh-1 and ms-1

f) Why is it more relevant to talk about Johnson’s average speed than average velocity?

g) Determine Johnson’s average acceleration (in ms-2) during:

(i) The first 50 m?

(ii) The last 50 m of the race?

h) Why does the physicist predict that Johnson will break the 400 m record again?

(14 marks)
Total: 70 marks

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