Review for Final Exam

Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration

1. What is the difference between speed and velocity?

2. A plane’s average speed between two cities is 600 km/hr. If the trip takes 2.5 hrs.
how far does the plane fly?



3. You start walking from a point on a circular field of radius 0.5 km and 1 hour later
you are at the same point. What is your average speed over the course of this journey?
(hint: think about the distance you travelled around the circle, or the circumference of
that circle)

4. From the previous question, what is your average velocity over the course of your
journey around the circle? (hint: velocity is displacement/time. What is your
displacement from the start to the end of you journey?)

5. Alfonso was driving 35 mph before he reached a red light. In three seconds he was
at 10 mph. What was his acceleration?

true/false:

6. Objects that are accelerating are represented on a position-time graph by a curved

line. 


7. An object that is slowing down is not accelerating. 





8. A line on a position-time graph that has a negative slope represents an object that is
slowing down.

Forces (Newton’s laws)

9. What is Newton’s 1st Law?

10. What is Newton’s 2nd Law?

11. What is Newton’s 3rd Law?

12. How does Newton’s 1st law explain why seat belts protect us from danger in the
event of a car crash?

13. Which object has more inertia: a bowling ball or a marble?

14. If a 5000 kg pirate ship with its sails open on a windy day is accelerating to the left
at a rate of 2 m/s2, what must be the net force that it is experiencing and in which
direction is it? (hint: Newton’s 2nd law will be helpful)

15. A 4000 kg car traveling at 100 mph crashes head on into a parked car that is 1500
kg. Which car experiences a greater force from the collision?

Gravity

16. Two astronauts, each with a mass of 80 kg each, are floating off in space 3 m apart.
What is the force of gravitational attraction that they each feel?

17. The Earth and the moon are attracted to each other because of the force of gravity
between them. Does the moon feel a greater force from the Earth than the Earth feels from the
moon?

Energy
18. A marble held in place at the top of a 1 meter tall ramp has 10 joules of potential energy.
How much kinetic energy does it have halfway down the ramp if it was let go at the top?
(Assume the ramp is frictionless)