Velocity

Practice

Go to this link for some review on how to calculate velocity and some practice problems to get you warmed up.  Solve the 10 Practice problems at the end.

  1. Calculate the speed of a dog running through a field if he is covering 23.7 meters in 54 seconds.

  1. If a cross country runner covers a distance of 347 meters in 134 seconds what is her speed?

  1. What is the speed of a baseball that travels 49 meters in 2.4 seconds?

  1. What is the speed of a horse in meters per second that runs a distance of 1.2 miles in 2.4 minutes?  

  1. Calculate the velocity of a car that travels 556 kilometers northeast in 3.4 hours.  Leave your answer in kilometers per hour.

  1. If the distance covered by a jogger is 2,541meters through the park and the time it took to cover that distance was 43.6 minutes, what was the speed of the jogger?

  1. Which object has a greater velocity, a ball rolling down a 3.4 meter hill in six seconds or a fish swimming upstream and covering 5.4 meters in 0.4 minutes?

  1. If Seneca decides to walk across town to a store that is .95 kilometers away and she has only 25 minutes to get there, what speed does she need to maintain to arrive on time?

  1. If a projectile flies north 387 meters in 5.8 seconds, what is its velocity?

  1. Calculate the velocity of a mountain climber if that climber is moving northeast at a pace of 1.6 km in 1.4 hours?  Give your answer in the SI unit for velocity.

Review

  1. What is velocity?

  1. How does velocity differ from speed? Why is velocity a vector?

  1. Explain how an arrow can be used to represent velocity.

  1. Use vector arrows to represent the velocity of a car that travels north at 50 mi/h and then travels east at 25 mi/h.

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