Question 1

A motorist drives north for 35 min at 85 km/h and then stops for 15 min. He then continues north,
traveling 130 km in 2 hr.

a) What is his total displacement

b) What is his average velocity

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Question 2

A rat and a cat are 25 m apart. When the rat started to run at 2 km/h, the cat started to chase him at 10
km/h. Can the cat catch the rat in 10 seconds.

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Question 3

The position of a car coasting down a hill was observed at various times and the results are summarized
in the table below. Find the average velocity of the car during (a) the first second, (b) the last 3 second,
and (c) the entire period of observation.

x (m) 0 2.3 9.2 20.7 36.8 57.5

t (s) 0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0

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Question 4

Graph velocity against time below represents the motion of an object. The total distance traveled by the
car is 63 m.

V (ms¯¹)

0 2 8 t(s)

a) Determine the value of y

b) If velocity y is 60 m/s, calculate the average acceleration for the time interval t=0 to t=2 and t=2
to t=8

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Question 5

You pushed a 1 kg box on floor where m= 0.3. If the force you applied was 5 N, will the box move.

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Question 6

A car makes a 200 km trip at an average speed of 40 km/h. A second car starting 1 hr later arrives at the
same destination at the same time. What was the average velocity of the second car.

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Question 7

A book has a mass of 400 g. When you slide the book against the floor with 5 N, it acceleration at the
rate of -1.5 m/s². What would the coefficient of friction between the book and the floor.

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Question 8

A train at rest starts to move from one station and stops at another station in 18 minutes. In the first 2
minutes, it moves with a constant acceleration of 0.20 ms¯² and after that its speed is constant until it is
stopped by a constant force from the brakes, which is applied for 1 minute

a) Sketch a velocity-time graph for the motion

b) Determine the distance between the two stations

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Question 9

An object of mass 50 kg is pulled with a rope up a plane inclined at 15⁰ to the horizontal. The rope is
parallel to the plane and the tension in it is 300 N. Determine the acceleration of the object if the
coefficient of kinetic friction between the object and the plane is 0.20. Draw complete free body
diagram for the object.

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Question 10

An object of mass 50 kg is pulled with a rope up a plane incline at 15⁰ to the horizontal. The rope is
parallel to the plane and the tension in it is 300 N. Draw free body diagram for each question (i), (ii) and
determine the acceleration of the object

(i) If the plane is smooth

(ii) If the coefficient of kinetic friction between the object and the plane is 0.20.

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