1. Homer runs 100 m [S], then 300 m [E] followed by 500 m [N].

If the walk took him 15 minutes,

determine:
a) Homer’s average speed in km/h
b) Homer’s average velocity in km/h.
2. Maggie crawls 20 m [E] followed by 60 m [N30 o E] on 20 minutes. Determine:
a) Maggie’s average speed in km/h
b) Maggie’s average velocity in km/h
3. Milhouse runs 100 m [N40 o E] followed by 200 m [S30 o W] in 5 minutes. Determine:
a) Milhouse’s average speed
b) Milhouse’s average velocity
4. Explain how someone’s average velocity can be different from their average speed?
5. How can someone walk 2 km and still have no average velocity?
6. The Sea Captain heads out in his boat to travel the 12.0 km distance from Springfield to
Bartville. His boat can
travel at 8.0 m/s and there is a current of 2.0 m/s. Determine how long a round trip, from
Springfield to Bartiville
and back again will take.
7. Thumper the Rabbit is traveling at 3.0 m/s [N] when he accelerates at 2.0 m/s 2 [N] to his
waiting girlfriend. How
long will it take Thumper to travel the 54 m distance to his little bunny friend?
8. Thumper the Rabbit is put in a hot air balloon which rises up into the air at a constant speed
of 9.0 m/s. When the
balloon reaches a height of 80 m. Thumper falls out of the balloon. At what speed will Thumper
hit the ground?
9. Lisa accelerates from rest at 2.0 m/s 2 for 4.0 seconds. She then travels at a constant speed
for the next 20.0
seconds after which she decelerates at 4.0 m/s 2 until coming to a stop. How far did Lisa run?
10. Homer is driving his car at 100 k m/h (27.8 m/s) when suddenly a small, cute, furry little
rabbit hops out in front of
his car 140 m ahead. Homer immediately applies the brakes. If Homer has a reaction time of
0.80 seconds and
the brakes cause the car to slow down at 3.0 m/s 2 , determine if the small, cute furry rabbit
becomes road pizza!
11. Bart and Milhouse are standing on the top of the 60 m high Springfield Bridge. Milhouse
drops a rabbit he is
holding into the water below. At the same instant Milhouse drops his rabbit, Bart thrown his
rabbit downwards
with a vertical velocity of 2.0 m/s. Determine the time interval between successive splashes.
12. Maggie is moving with a constant acceleration along the floor in a straight line. She starts
her baby stopwatch as
she passes a red chair and notes that it takes her 10.0 seconds to reach a table 10.0 m away.
As she passes the
table, her speed is 1.20 m/s. How far away from the red chair was Maggie is she started
accelerating from rest?

SOME MORE KINEMATICS QUESTIONS

1. Homer is driving his car at a constant speed of 108 km/h and passes Chief Wiggum who is
sitting in his police
cruiser having a donut. Four seconds After Homer passes Wiggum's stationary police car,
Wiggum sets off in
chase after Homer with a constant acceleration of 3.0 m/s 2 , At what distance relative to the
Chiefs starting
position does Wiggum catch Homer?

2. A cement block accidently falls from rest from the ledge of a 50.0 m high building. When the
block is 14.0 m
above the ground, a man, 2.00 m in height looks up and notices that the block is directly above
him. How much
time, at most, does the man have to get out of the way?
3. A sports car, picking up speed, passes between two markers in a lime of 4.1 s. The markers
are separated by a
distance of 100 m. All the while, the car has an acceleration of 1.8 m/s 2 . Determine the speed
of the car at the
second marker.

4. Bart is standing at the top of a 60 m high bridge that looks over the Springfield River. Looking
down, he sees
Homer floating lazily along the river on an air mattress being carried by the current. Bart drops a
rock with an
initial velocity of 1.4 m/s when Homer has 6.50 m to travel before being directly under
Bart's position. The rock
hits the water 1.00 m in front of Homer. Determine the speed of the river current.
5. Herman is driving his truck at a constant speed of 100 km/h in the fast lane of a two lane
highway. He
approaches a stationary car stopped at the side of the road. When the truck is still 120 m from
the car, the
car pulls out into the slow lane and acceleratesat2.6 m/s 2 . How far does the car travel before
the truck
catches up to it?
6. A rock is pushed from rest across a sheet of ice, accelerating at 5.0 m/s 2 over a distance of
80.0 cm. The object
then slides with a constant speed of 4.0 seconds until it reaches a rough section of ice which
causes it to stop
in 2.5 seconds. Determine the total distance the rock slid throughout the entire trip?

ACCELERATION PROBLEMS

1. Mr. Penner is driving his brand new Mercedes SLK at a constant speed of 105 km/h. There is
a stationary car 100 m
ahead of him. At that instant, the car pulls out in the slow lane and accelerates at 3.0 m/s 2 .
How far does the car
travel before Mr. Penner’s SLK catches up to it?
2. Mr. Penner is driving his brand new Lotus Elise (yes, he won the lottery… in his dreams) with
a constant speed of
80.0 km/h. Mr Walia is parked in his Tata Nano, 252 m ahead of him. At that instant, Mr. Walia
car pulls out in the
slow lane and accelerates at 2.32 m/s 2 . Mr. Penner then accelerates at 4.0 m/s 2 to get in front
of Mr. Walia. How far
does the Mr. Walia travel before Mr. Penner’s Lotus catches up to him?
3. Sandeep is driving his truck at a constant speed of 110 km/h in the fast lane of a two lane
highway. He approaches
a stationary car stopped at the side of the road. When the truck is still 130 m from the car, the
car pulls out into the
slow lane and accelerates at 2.6 m/s 2 . How far does the car travel before the truck catches up
to it?
4. Frank is driving on the highway at a constant speed of 85 km/h in a 60 km/h zone, he then
passes a parked police
car, who clocks him at 85 km/h and starts a chase accelerating at 3.5 m/s 2 . Frank has a few
prior speeding tickets
and doesn’t want another one, so 1.8 seconds after the police office starts the chase he
accelerates at 2.5 m/s 2 .
How long does it take for the police officer to catch Frank? How far does Frank travel after he
passes the office until
he gets pulled over.
5. An old lady is driving her Crown Victoria down the highway. She is traveling at 80 km/h. A
second car passes her
going 20 km/h faster than her. If it takes 400 m for the old lady to catch up to the speeder, how
fast did she
accelerate and how much time did it take?