PHYSICS CYOs

CHAPTER 2- MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE

2.1
1. a) displacement includes direction and is a vector. Distance is only the magnitude and is scalar.

b) velocity includes direction and is vector.

c) average speed is distance travelled between two points in time. Instantaneous speed is at a single
point in time.

d) average velocity is distance and direction of distance between two points in time. Instantaneous is
a single point in time.

2. velocity

3. because an object can speed up and slow down throughout the journey and average speed only
takes into account the final and initial distance of the object with respect to time, not the distance at
each time value.

4. a) speed/time = acceleration

b) rise x run or rise x run x1/2 is a triangle = distance

6. a) om

b) 0ms-1

c) 12m

d) 2.86ms-1

7. 65/1.5 = 43.333kmh-1

8. 150s

2.2

1. their gradients are never the same

2. a) i. 5ms-2

Ii. 5ms-2 approx

iii. -3ms-2 approx

b) 18m
c) 4.5s and 1s and 7.5s

d) B

3. a) 22.5 = 0 + ½ * a *82 = 0.7 ms-2

b) 7.5 ms-1

2.3

1. a) 50.1 ms-1

b) 5.11 s

c) 19.6 ms-1

d) 3.57s

2.