KINEMATICS

QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF
MOTION WITHOUT BEING
CONCERNED WITH THE FORCES
CAUSING IT
MOTION ALONG A
STRAIGHT LINE
DISTANCE AND DISPLACEMENT
 SPEED – how fast an object moves

SPEED = DISTANCE / TIME

INSTANTANEOUS SPEED – speed of an object at

a given moment

AVERAGE SPEED – total distance that an object

travelled over a given time

sample problems : page 69

PROBLEM SOLVING USING
GRESA

G - given
R – required
E - equation
S – solution
A - answer
Speed of a bullet = 1.7 km/h
1. Pete is driving down Pete Street.
He drives 150 meters in 18
seconds. What is his speed?
 2. A person jogs 4 km in 32
minutes, then 2 km in 22 minutes,
and finally 1 km in 16 minutes.
What’s the jogger’s instantaneous
speed in each time interval and his
average speed in km/h?
A train travels 120 kilometers in 2
hours and 30 minutes. What is its
average speed?
 DISTANCE TIME VELOCITY

CAR A 28 m 5.5 s

CAR B 2.5 m 30m/s

CAR C 67 s 15 km/h

CAR D 5 km 8 m/s
VELOCITY – the rate of a change in displacement

VELOCITY = DISPLACEMENT/ TIME

INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY – velocity of a

moving object at a given moment
 Sample problems:
1. A car travels at uniform velocity a distance of
100 m in 4 seconds. What is the velocity of the
car?
2. A man walks 7 km in 2 hours and 2 km in 1
hour in the same direction. 
Find the:
A. Instantaneous velocity
b. average velocity for the whole journey
 3. George walks to a friend’s house. He walks
750 meters North in 2 minutes, then realizes he
walked too far. He turns around and walks 250
meters South in 40 seconds.
A. What is his speed?
B. What is his velocity?
 ACCELERATION
= change in velocity
over time
sample problems: page 72
1. A train moves from rest to a
speed of 25 m/s in 30 seconds.
What is its acceleration?
 3. How long will it take a car to go
from a complete stop to 44m/s if it
is accelerating 5 m/s2 ?
QUIZ # 5
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 4. A car travelling at 15 m/s starts
to decelerate steadily. It comes to a
complete stop in 10 seconds. What
is its acceleration?

5. A plane’s average speed is

600km/h. If the trip takes 2.5
hours, how far does the plane fly?