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The document is a problem set consisting of 32 physics problems related to motion, acceleration, and velocity. Each problem requires the solver to calculate various parameters such as position, velocity, acceleration, and time based on given conditions. The problems involve different scenarios including cars, airplanes, and objects in free fall.

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Problem Set in Physics

The document is a problem set consisting of 32 physics problems related to motion, acceleration, and velocity. Each problem requires the solver to calculate various parameters such as position, velocity, acceleration, and time based on given conditions. The problems involve different scenarios including cars, airplanes, and objects in free fall.

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PETER CALONIA
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Problem Set

Directions: Solve the following problems. Show your complete solution.

1. From rest, a car accelerated at 8 m/s2 for 10 seconds.


a) What is the position of the car at the end of the 10 seconds?
b) What is the velocity of the car at the end of the 10 seconds?
2. With an initial velocity of 20 km/h, a car accelerated at 8 m/s 2 for 10
seconds.
a) What is the position of the car at the end of the 10 seconds?
b) What is the velocity of the car at the end of the 10 seconds?
3. A car accelerates uniformly from 0 to 72 km/h in 11.5 seconds.
a) What is the acceleration of the car in m/s 2?
b) What is the position of the car by the time it reaches the velocity of
72 km/h?
4. An object is thrown straight down from the top of a building at a speed
of 20 m/s. It hits the ground with a speed of 40 m/s.
a) How high is the building?
b) How long was the object in the air?
5. A train brakes from 40 m/s to a stop over a distance of 100 m.
a) What is the acceleration of the train?
b) How much time does it take the train to stop?
6. A boy on a bicycle increases his velocity from 5 m/s to 20 m/s in 10
seconds.
a) What is the acceleration of the bicycle?
b) What distance was covered by the bicycle during the 10 seconds?
7. a) How long does it take an airplane to take off if it needs to reach a
speed on the ground of 350 km/h over a distance of 600 meters
(assume the plane starts from rest)?
b) What is the acceleration of the airplane over the 600 meters?
8. Starting from a distance of 20 meters to the left of the origin and at a
velocity of 10 m/s, an object accelerates to the right of the origin for 5
seconds at 4 m/s2. What is the position of the object at the end of the 5
seconds of acceleration?
9. What is the smallest distance, in meters, needed for an airplane
touching the runway with a velocity of 360 km/h and an acceleration of
-10 m/s2 to come to rest?
10. To approximate the height of a water well, Martha and John drop
a heavy rock into the well. 8 seconds after the rock is dropped, they
hear a splash caused by the impact of the rock on the water. What is
the height of the well. (Speed of sound in air is 340 m/s).
11. A rock is thrown straight up and reaches a height of 10 m.
a) How long was the rock in the air?
b) What is the initial velocity of the rock?
12. A car accelerates from rest at 1.0 m/s2 for 20.0 seconds along a
straight road . It then moves at a constant speed for half an hour. It
then decelerates uniformly to a stop in 30.0 s. Find the total distance
covered by the car.

13. An airplane accelerates down a runway at 3.20 m/s 2 for 32.8 s


until is finally lifts off the ground. Determine the distance traveled
before takeoff.
14. A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly over a time of
5.21 seconds for a distance of 110 m. Determine the acceleration of
the car.
15. Upton Chuck is riding the Giant Drop at Great America. If Upton
free falls for 2.60 seconds, what will be his final velocity and how far
will he fall?
16. A race car accelerates uniformly from 18.5 m/s to 46.1 m/s in
2.47 seconds. Determine the acceleration of the car and the distance
traveled.
17. A feather is dropped on the moon from a height of 1.40 meters.
The acceleration of gravity on the moon is 1.67 m/s 2. Determine the
time for the feather to fall to the surface of the moon.
18. Rocket-powered sleds are used to test the human response to
acceleration. If a rocket-powered sled is accelerated to a speed of 444
m/s in 1.83 seconds, then what is the acceleration and what is the
distance that the sled travels?
19. A bike accelerates uniformly from rest to a speed of 7.10 m/s
over a distance of 35.4 m. Determine the acceleration of the bike.
20. An engineer is designing the runway for an airport. Of the planes
that will use the airport, the lowest acceleration rate is likely to be 3
m/s2. The takeoff speed for this plane will be 65 m/s. Assuming this
minimum acceleration, what is the minimum allowed length for the
runway?
21. A car traveling at 22.4 m/s skids to a stop in 2.55 s. Determine
the skidding distance of the car (assume uniform acceleration).
22. A kangaroo is capable of jumping to a height of 2.62 m.
Determine the takeoff speed of the kangaroo.
23. If Michael Jordan has a vertical leap of 1.29 m, then what is his
takeoff speed and his hang time (total time to move upwards to the
peak and then return to the ground)?

24. A bullet leaves a rifle with a muzzle velocity of 521 m/s. While
accelerating through the barrel of the rifle, the bullet moves a distance
of 0.840 m. Determine the acceleration of the bullet (assume a uniform
acceleration)
25. A baseball is popped straight up into the air and has a hang-time
of 6.25 s. Determine the height to which the ball rises before it reaches
its peak. (Hint: the time to rise to the peak is one-half the total hang-
time.)
26. The observation deck of tall skyscraper 370 m above the street.
Determine the time required for a penny to free fall from the deck to
the street below.
27. A bullet is moving at a speed of 367 m/s when it embeds into a
lump of moist clay. The bullet penetrates for a distance of 0.0621 m.
Determine the acceleration of the bullet while moving into the clay.
(Assume a uniform acceleration.)
28. A stone is dropped into a deep well and is heard to hit the water
3.41 s after being dropped. Determine the depth of the well.
29. It was once recorded that a Jaguar left skid marks that were 290
m in length. Assuming that the Jaguar skidded to a stop with a
constant acceleration of -3.90 m/s2, determine the speed of the Jaguar
before it began to skid.
30. A plane has a takeoff speed of 88.3 m/s and requires 1365 m to
reach that speed. Determine the acceleration of the plane and the time
required to reach this speed.
31. A dragster accelerates to a speed of 112 m/s over a distance of
398 m. Determine the acceleration (assume uniform) of the dragster.
32. With what speed in miles/hr (1 m/s = 2.23 mi/hr) must an object
be thrown to reach a height of 91.5 m (equivalent to one football
field)? Assume negligible air resistance.

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