Questions

1. A car accelerates from 10 m s −1 to 30 m s−1 in 5 seconds. What is its acceleration?

2. An aircraft was travelling at a speed of 60 m s-1 when it landed on a runway. It took two minutes to stop.
Calculate the acceleration of the aircraft while coming to a stop.

3. A car is travelling at a velocity of 25 m s-1 when the engine is then turned off; calculate how far the car
will travel before coming to rest if the deceleration is 1.47 ms-2?

4. A skateboarder starts from rest at the top of a ramp and accelerates down it. The ramp is 25 m long and
the skateboarder has a velocity of 12.2 m s–1 at the bottom of the ramp.
Calculate the acceleration of the skateboarder on the ramp.

5. A train started from a station and accelerated at 0.5 m s−2 to reach its top speed of 50 m s−1 and
maintained this speed for 90 minutes.
As the train approached the next station the driver applied the brakes uniformly to bring the train to a
stop in a distance of 500 m.
(i) Calculate how long it took the train to reach its top speed.
(ii) Calculate the acceleration experienced by the train when the brakes were applied

6. A vehicle accelerates uniformly along a straight road, increasing its speed from 4.0 ms-1 to 30.0 ms-1 in
13 s. Calculate:
a. Its acceleration,
b. The distance it moves in this time.

7. An aircraft lands on a runway at a speed of 40 ms-1 and brakes to a halt in a distance of 860 m.
Calculate:
a. the braking time,
b. the deceleration of the aircraft.
8. An aeroplane taking off accelerates uniformly on a runway from a velocity of 4m/s to a velocity of
64m/s in 40 seconds. Calculate its acceleration.

9. A car travelling a velocity of 20m/s brakes to a standstill in 8.0s. Calculate its deceleration, assuming its
velocity decreases constantly.

10. Cyclist accelerates uniformly from a velocity of 2.5m/s to a velocity of 7.0m/s in a time of 10seconds.
Calculate:

a. Its acceleration
b. Its velocity 2.0s later if it continued to accelerate at the same rate.

11. A railway moving at a speed of 2.0m/s on level track reached a steady incline which slowed it down to
rest in 15 seconds and caused it to reverse. Calculate:
a. Distance it moved up the incline
b. Its acceleration on the incline

12. A train slows down from 40m/s to 10m/s in 60 seconds, how far does it travel in that time?
13. If a ball is dropped from rest and falls 8m to the ground, what is the speed just before it hits the ground?
Take acceleration due to gravity to be 10m/s/s).
14. What acceleration would be needed by a car speeding up from 10m/s to 15m/s in 80m?

15. A car accelerates uniformly from 5m/s to 15m/s taking 7.5 seconds. How far did it travel during this
period.

16. Initial velocity 5m/s, final velocity 36km/hr, acceleration 1.25m/s/s. Distance?

17. A cycle accelerates from rest at a constant acceleration of 0.4m/s/s for 20 seconds then stops pedalling
and slowed to standstill at constant deceleration over distance of 260m. Calculate:
a. Distance travelled by cyclist in the first 20seconds
b. The speed of the cyclist at end of this time

18. A cyclist is travelling at 7m/s, then accelerates at 2.5m/s/s for 15 seconds.

a. How far did they travel during this time?
b. What was the final speed after 15 seconds?
Solutions
1. v = u + at ⇒ a = ( v – u ) ÷ t ⇒ a = (30 – 10) ÷ 5 ⇒ a = 4 m s-2.
2. v = u + at 0 = 60 + a (120) a = - 0.5 m s-2
3. v 2 = u 2 + 2as
0 = 25 +2(-1.47) s or s = 213 m
4. v2= u2 + 2as ⇒ (12.2)2 = 0 +2a(25)
a = 2.98 m s–2
5.
(i) v = u + at
50 = 0 + 0.5t
t = 50/0.5 = 100 s
(ii) v2 = u2 + 2as
0 = 502 + 2a(500)
a = −2500/1000 = − 2.5 m s-1
6.
a. a= (v-u)/ t a= 2m/s/s
b. s= ½ (u+v)t s= 221m
7.
a. s= ½(u+v)t ⇒ t=2s/(u+v) t=43sec
b. v= u + at ⇒ a= (v-u)/t a=-0.93m/s/s
8. v= u+at ⇒ a=(v-u)/t a= 1.5m/s/s
9. v= u+at ⇒ a=(v-u)/t a= -2.5m/s/s
10.
a. v= u+at ⇒ a=(v-u)/t a= 0.45m/s/s
b. v= u+at v=7.9m/s
11.
a. S= ½ (u+v)t s=15m b. -0.13m/s/s
12. S= ½ (u+v)t s=1500m
13. v2=u2 + 2as v=12.64m/s
14. v2=u2 + 2as ⇒ a= v2-u2/2s a=0.78m/s/s
15. S= ½ (u+v)t s=75m
16. S= ½ (u+v)t s=22 503.12m
17.
a. S=ut + 1/2at2 s=80m
b. V= u+at v=8m/s OR s=1/2 (u+v)t s=8m/s