You are designing an airport for small private aircraft. A Cessna 182 has a stall speed of about 27.

8 m/s and can accelerate at a rate of 2 m/s2. How long must a runway be in order to accommodate this plane? The steam catapult on the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is able to hurl an F/A-18 Hornet into the air from rest in 1.2 seconds at a speed of 60 m/s (about 117 knots). How many Gs does the pilot experience? Estimate the minimum stopping distance for a car on a dry road that can accelerate (slow down) at a rate of -6 m/s2 if the initial velocity of the car is +28 m/s (about 62 mph) and the drivers reaction time is 0.5 seconds (a little below average). motorcyclist traveling 33.3 m/s (75 mph) passes a constable in a 55 mph zone. The constable immediately begins pursuit at a constant acceleration of 2.8 m/s2. How much time will it take for the constable to overtake the motorcyclist (who does not know that he is being pursued). How fast will the constable be traveling? A motorcyclist traveling 40 m/s (89 mph) is caught in a speed trap. One second after the motorcycle passes the hidden officer pursuit begins with an acceleration of 3 m/s2. How much time will it take for the officer to overtake the motorcyclist A runner hopes to complete a 10k race in less than 30 minutes. After 27 minutes they still have 1100 meters to go. If the runner has enough strength left to accelerate at a rate of 0.20 m/s2, how many seconds must they do so to complete the race in less than 30 minutes? 1. Alice is into stupidity and thrills. She jumps from Kings Bridge over the Gorge at low tide. The drop is 10m. How long is she in the air for? If she has a forward speed of 6 ms-1, how far forward does she go? ( 1.4s, 8.4m ) 2. You throw a stone over a 45m cliff at 20 ms-1directly forwards. How far from the base of the cliff does the stone land? ( 60.6m ) 3. Explain why times actually measured for dropping are longer than simple theory. An extreme to this is a paper dart. Where in the Solar System might theory and practice agree perfectly? 4. A ball is hit at 20 ms-1at an angle of 300 to the ground. What forward and what vertical speeds does this represent? ( 17.3ms-1 f, 10ms-1v ) 5. A TV camera is looking down on a golf ball which has been hit by Greg Norman. The ball travels 120m in 3 seconds. What is the ball's forward speed? Is it possible to tell the ball's vertical speed at any instant from the camera shots? (40ms-1) 6. Explain why it is crucially important to think in terms of horizontal and vertical motions. 7. You hit a tennis ball in backyard cricket at 30 ms-1 at an angle of 600from the ground. What are the ball's horizontal and vertical speeds just after leaving the bat. How long is it in the air for? How far away does your Father have to be to catch you out? ( 15ms-1 h, 26ms-1 v, 5.3s, 79.6m)

8. On the moon, Astronaut Bloggs, hits a stone at 250 to the ground with a speed of 40ms1 . Given the acceleration caused by the Moon's mass is 1.6 ms-2, find how far the stone goes on the flat plain on which he has landed. ( 765m ) 9. You are a shotput thrower. Your throwing speed is 15ms-1. During training, you toss two shots, one at 400 and the other at 450. Assuming your shot leaves at ground level - which it doesn't, how much further does the 450 one go? ( It turns out that this is the perfect angle for maximum distance. ) ( 0.3m ) 10. ( This is trickier ). You throw your teddy bear at 10ms-1 and an angle of 500. How far away is it when it is at a height of 2m ? ( 2.13m, 7.9m ) 11. In a dummy spitting competition from a sitting start, who wins, Joanne with a spit of 4ms-1 at an angle of 300 or Peter with a spit of 4.5ms-1 at an angle of 250 ? ( Peter by 16cm ) Assume gravity near Earth operates with an acceleration of 9.8ms-2 .