High School Grade 11

Dewi Pramesti Kusumaningrum

Motion
 Speed
Average speed is calculated over a period of time, while instantaneous speed is
speed at the instant when you look at it (example, at the speedometer of a car)
Unit of Speed
My girlfriend got mad and said she need
some time and distance and she left me
crying...

I still don't get it why she wants to calculate

the velocity
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Velocity
• What is the difference between average speed and instantaneous speed?
• Give several examples of units of speed (along with the relevant
situation/objects).
• Describe about the motion shown in this ticker-tapes:

• How are ‘distance’ and ‘displacement’ different?

• Give equations of speed and velocity.
• A train travels 4000 m in 125 s. Calculate the average speed of the train.
• A spacecraft is orbiting the earth with constant speed of 8100 m s-1, the
radius of its orbit is 6750 km. Calculate how far it will travel in one hour.
Answers of Quiz
• Average speed is calculated over a period of time, while instantaneous speed is speed at the
instant when you look at it (example, at the speedometer of a car)
• Units of Speed:

• The first picture shows uniform motion or constant speed (no acceleration) while the second one
shows motion with acceleration, as the ink gets further apart in times (this implies the object gets
faster).
• Distance is the amount of path travelled of object in motion, while displacement is the shortest
length of path between two objects. In addition, distance is scalar quantity, while displacement is
vector quantity.