Acceleration Quiz: Name: __Jassimar

Oberoi______________________________ Class:___1B______

1. An observer recorded the following data for the motion of a car undergoing constant
acceleration. What was the magnitude of the acceleration of the car?

A.4.5 m/s2 B. 1.3 m/s2 C.1.5 m/s2 D. 2.0 m/s2

2. As a car is driven north in a straight line with decreasing speed, the acceleration of the car
must be

A. directed northward B. directed southward C. zero D.9.8 m/s2

3. Which graph best represents the relationship between the acceleration of an object falling
freely near the surface of Earth and the time that it falls?

A. B. C. D.

4. An object falls freely from rest near the surface of the Earth. What is the speed of the object
when it has fallen 19.6 m from its rest position?

A.19.6 m/s B.4.9 m/s C.96 m/s D.9.8 m/s

5. Which pair of graphs represents the same motion of an object?

A. B.

C. D.

6. An airplane originally at rest on a runway accelerates uniformly at 6.0 m/s 2 for 9 seconds.
During this 9-second interval, the airplane travels a distance of approximately

A. 72 m B. 243 m C. 860 m D. 430 m

7. A 1000-kg car traveling with a velocity of +20 m/s decelerates at -4.0 m/s 2 until it comes to
rest. What is the total distance the car travels as it decelerates to rest?

A. 20 m B. 10 m C. 30 m D. 50 m

8. A jogger accelerates at a constant rate as she travels 10.0 meters along a straight track from
point A to point B, as shown in the diagram below. If her speed was 2.0 m/s at point A and will
be 3.0 m/s at point B, how long will it take her to go from A to B?

A. 1.0 s B. 2.0 s C. 3.3 s D. 4.0 s

9. A stone is thrown straight up. What is its acceleration at the top of its trajectory?
  A. 0 m/s2
B. about –5 m/s2
C. about –9.8 m/s2
D. about –20 m/s2
E. about –50 m/s2

10. While the stone in the question above is rising:

 
A. its acceleration is upward and decreasing
B. its acceleration is upward and constant
C. its acceleration is upward and increasing
D. its acceleration is zero
E. None of the above

11. A basketball player jumped straight up to grab a rebound. If she was in the air for 0.80
second, how high did she jump?
 
A. 1.2 m
B. 0.50 m
C. 3.1 m
D. 0.78 m

12. An astronaut standing on a platform on the Moon drops a hammer. If the hammer falls 6.0
meters vertically in 2.7 seconds, what is its acceleration?

A. 2.2 m/s2
B. 9.8 m/s2
C. 1.6 m/s2
D. 4.4 m/s2
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What is the acceleration of the object during its motion?

(s
3
v )(
(m/s) 0 6
m 2 4 6 t
-3/s (s)
-6)
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A) 1.5 m/s2
B) -1.5 m/s2
C) 0.75 m/s2
D) -0.75 m/s2

14. A car that is moving at a constant velocity of 20 m/s, east for 10 seconds has an acceleration
of ____ m/s/s.

a. 0 b. 2 c. 20 d. 200 e. none of these

15. Match the dot diagram below to the appropriate letter for a velocity-time graph. It is known
that the object is moving toward the left. (The rightward direction is the positive
displacement direction.) Choose the correct letter that represents the motion in the v-t
graph.

Honor Code: I have neither given help or cheated on this test (SHC)