HOMEWORK #4 Mr.

Kepple
Name: _______________________
Date: ___________ Period: _____
Accelerated Motion

REVIEW CONCEPTS Check your understanding

1. What quantity describes how quickly you
change your position (location)? (PHYZR#4-7)
Speed
3. On a position vs. time graph, what is the
meaning of a straight line? (Page#2-III)
Uniform Motion (or constant
velocity)
5. Acceleration is the rate at which (how
quickly) what happens? (Page#7-I)
Acceleration is how quickly the
velocity of an object changes.
7. What is the acceleration of a car that travels
straight at a constant speed of 80 m/s?
ZERO
MOTION GRAPHS
9. The motion graph to the right shows the
x (m)
motion of two cars (A and B) during a race.
(a) Indicate below which car was accelerating.
___ Car A X Car B
___ ___ Neither
Justify your answer:
2. What quantity describes how quickly you
change your velocity? (PHYZR#6-1)
Acceleration
4. On a position vs. time graph, what is the
meaning of a curved line? (Page#2-III)
Accelerated Motion (or changing
speed)
6. Why does the unit of time enter twice in the
unit of acceleration? (Page#7-II)
It enters once from velocity and
once from the rate of change.
8. A baseball is thrown into the air at 20 m/s.
What is the acceleration at its highest point?
-10 m/s
Motion Graph
B
800
A
600

We know that car B is accelerating since 400

its positive vs. time graph is curved.
200

0
(b) Over what time interval was A ahead of B? 0 2 4 6 8 t (s)

s<<s (d) Indicate below whether the speed of car A

after 5 seconds is greater than, less than, or
equal to the speed of car B after 5 seconds.
___ Greater ___
X Less ___ Equal
(c) Which car would win the race if the track was Justify your answer:
i. 400 m? X Car A
___ ___ Car B ___ Tie The slope of a motion graph is the
speed. On the graph we can see that
ii. 500 m? ___ Car A ___ Car B X Tie
___
after 5 seconds, the graph of car B has a
iii. 800 m? ___ Car A X Car B
___ ___ Tie
steeper slope than that of car A.
Fremont Physics Kepple 2012 Acceleration HW-B 9/11/13
ACCELERATED MOTION PROBLEMS
Use the formulas to solve each problem.
10. Daniel is traveling 40m/s on the freeway. 11. A bullet initially at rest is fired from a gun.
He sees a police car up ahead and steps on the While inside the barrel, it experiences an
brakes. His car decelerates at -2 m/s and he average acceleration of m/s. How fast
passes the police car 5 seconds later. How fast is the bullet traveling when it exits the gun if it
is he moving when he passes the police car? was in the barrel for s?

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m/s m/s
12. You drop a rock from the top of a building. 13. A drag racer accelerating at 30 m/s takes 4
You hear it hit the ground 2 seconds later. How seconds to reach top speed. How much
tall was the building? distance does it cover in this time?



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m m

CULMINATING PROBLEM
14. Suppose that, while chasing a speeder, a police car accelerates uniformly from rest to a final speed
of 40 meters per second and that is takes 10 seconds for the police car to reach this final speed.
rest 4 m/s

(a) Indicate below whether the acceleration of (b) Calculate the acceleration of the police car
the police car is positive, negative, or zero. during this time interval.
X Positive
___ ___ Negative ___ Zero

Justify your answer:
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Since the police car is speeding up, the
acceleration and velocity must point in m/s

the same direction.
(c) Calculate the distance traveled by the police (d) Calculate the average velocity of the police
car during this time interval. car during this time interval.


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m m/s