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Speed Velocity Acceleration

This document provides examples of calculating speed, velocity, and acceleration based on distance and time measurements. It includes 15 problems involving determining speed in miles/hour or meters/second given distance and time, calculating acceleration given changes in velocity over time, and other concepts related to motion. The problems cover a range of real-world scenarios involving vehicles like cars, rockets, planes and satellites as well as balls rolling down ramps to demonstrate key formulas and concepts.

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Speed Velocity Acceleration

This document provides examples of calculating speed, velocity, and acceleration based on distance and time measurements. It includes 15 problems involving determining speed in miles/hour or meters/second given distance and time, calculating acceleration given changes in velocity over time, and other concepts related to motion. The problems cover a range of real-world scenarios involving vehicles like cars, rockets, planes and satellites as well as balls rolling down ramps to demonstrate key formulas and concepts.

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Speed, Velocity & Acceleration

1. A girl travels 20 miles on her bicycle. The trip takes 2 hours. Express her speed in
miles/hr.
2. A car starts from a stoplight and is traveling with a velocity of 10 m/sec east in 20
seconds. What is the acceleration of the car?
3. What is the speed of a rocket that travels 9000 meters in 12.12 seconds?
4. What is the speed of a jet plane that travels 528 meters in 4 seconds?
5. How long will your trip take (in hours) if you travel 350 km at an average speed of 80
km/hr?
6. How far (in meters) will you travel in 3 minutes running at a rate of 6 m/s?
7. A trip to Cape Canaveral, Florida takes 10 hours. The distance is 816 km. calculate the
average speed.
8. How many seconds will it take for a satellite to travel 450 km at a rate of 120 m/s?
9. What is the speed of a walking person in m/s if the person travels 1000 m in 20 minutes?
10. A ball rolls down a ramp for 15 seconds. If the initial velocity of the ball was 0.8 m/sec
and the final velocity was 7 m/sec, what was the acceleration of the ball?
11. A meteoroid changed velocity from 1.0 km/s to 1.8 km/s in 0.03 seconds. What is the
acceleration of the meteoroid?
12. A car going 50mph accelerates to pass a truck. Five seconds later the car is going 80mph.
Calculate the acceleration of the car.
13. The space shuttle releases a space telescope into orbit around the earth. The telescope
goes from being stationary to traveling at a speed of 1700 m/s in 25 seconds. What is the
acceleration of the satellite?
14. A ball is rolled at a velocity of 12 m/sec. After 36 seconds, it comes to a stop. What is
the acceleration of the ball?
15. A dragster in a race accelerated from stop to 60 m/s by the time it reached the finish line.
The dragster moved in a straight line and traveled from the starting line to the finish line
in 8.0 sec. What was the acceleration of the dragster?

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