Problem Set: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration

1. What is the speed of a rocket that travels 8000m in 13s?

2. A pitcher throws a baseball from the pitcher’s mound to home plate in

0.46 s. The distance is 18.4 m. What was the average speed of the
baseball?

3. How long will it take if you travel 400 km with an average speed of 100
m/s?

4. Cassie walked to her friend’s house with an average speed of 1.40

m/s. The distance between the houses is 205 m. How long did the trip
take her?

5. A person walks 100 m in 55 minutes, then 200 m in 77 minutes, and

finally 50 m in 44 minutes. Find its average speed.

6. A cheetah can accelerate from rest to a speed of 30.0 m/s in 7.00s.

What is its acceleration?

7. A car moves from rest to a speed of 45m/s in a time interval of 15s. At

what rate does the car accelerate?

8. A car moving with 15m/s uniformly slows its velocity. It comes to a

complete stop in 10s. What is its acceleration?

9. A car starts its motion from rest with a constant acceleration of 4 m/s2.
What is the average velocity of the car in the first 5s of the motion?

10. Rocket-powered sleds are used to test the human response to

acceleration. If a rocket-powered sled is accelerated to a speed of 444
m/s in 1.83 seconds, then what is the acceleration?