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1. What does a diagonal upwards-sloping line on a position-time graph mean?
a) The position is changing – the object is at the origin.
b) The position is changing – the object is moving away from the origin.
c) The position is changing – the object is moving towards the origin.
d) The position is not changing – the object is at the origin.
e) The position is not changing – the object is away from the origin.

2. What is a vector?
a) A quantity where direction matters.
b) A type of dinosaur.
c) A super-villain.
d) A quantity where direction doesn’t matter.
e) Something that moves around a lot.

3. Which of these words accurately describes ‘position’?

a) Vector
b) Unusual
c) Tensor
d) Scalar
e) Non-directional

4. You run around traveling a total of 45 meters and end up 1 meter directly to the right of
the origin. The x-axis points left to right. The y-axis points up and down. What is your
position?
a) +1 meter (y-direction)
b) 45 meters
c) -1 meter (x-direction)
d) +1 meter (x-direction)
e) -1 meter (y-direction)

5. what is position in physics?

a) the building you’re inside.
b) How fast you’re moving.
c) A place where someone or something is located in terms of an axis.
d) How quickly your speed is changing.
e) What you think about something.

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6. Displacement is
a) Not dependent on measuring the length of the exact path taken by an object.
b) A vector quantity, requiring both magnitude and direction.
c) How far an object has moved with respect to its initial and final position,
regardless of path taken.
d) All correctly describe displacement.
e) Represented by delta s

7. A runner competes in the 400 meter dash and finishes with a time of 64 seconds. If the
track is a perfect oval, with the starting line and finish line at the same point, and the
runner’s average speed was 6.25 meters/second, what was the total distance travelled by
runner?
a) More information is needed
b) 0 meters
c) 400 meters north
d) 0 meters
e) 400 meters

8. Calculate the distance travelled by the object in the diagram.

Finish North

West East
18 meters
South

Start
9 meters

a) 27 meter northwest
b) 21 meters
c) 27 meters
d) 20 meters northwest
e) 405 meters northwest

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9. Calculate the displacement for some object in the diagram that starts at the red circle
and ends at the blue triangle.
N

W E

18 m S

9m
a) 405 meters northwest
b) 27 meters
c) 20 meters northwest
d) 27 meter northwest
e) 21 meters

10. Distance is
a) A vector quantity, requiring a directional component.
b) How far an object has moved with respect to initial and final position.
c) A scalar quantity, requiring a directional component.
d) Both a vector and scalar quantity depending on it initial and final position.
e) How much ground was covered regardless of starting and ending position.

11. If an object travels 4 meters in 2 seconds, and then another 5 meters in 10 seconds, what
is its average speed?
a) 0.5 meters per second.
b) 2 meters per second.
c) 1 meter per second
d) 0.75 meter per second.
e) 1.25 meters per second.

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12. If an object increases speed from 4 meters per second to 10 meters per second in 3
seconds, what is the acceleration of that object?
a) 2 meters per second squared
b) 4.67 meters per second
c) 4.67 meters per second squared
d) 2 meters per second
e) 3.33 meters per second squared
13. If an object travels 8 meters in two seconds, how fast is it moving?
a) 8 meters per second
b) 4 meters per second
c) 0.25 meters per second
d) 16 meters per second
e) 2 meters per second
14. What is your current velocity?
a) 0 miles per hour
b) 483,000 miles per hour
c) 1.3 million per hour
d) 770 miles per hour
e) All the answers are correct
15. What is motion? How is it defined?
a) The tendency for objects to keep going.
b) Movement relative to the Earth’s surface.
c) Movement relative to some other object or frame of reference.
d) The change in position of an object without any mass.
e) Moving at the speed of light.