Speed

Velocity
Acceleration
READING SCIENCE Who Walks
F aster?
DIRECTIONS: Read the text inside the box then answer the questions
below to help John and Mary determine who walks faster.

Just yesterday John and Mary were given assignments to record

the measured distance and time spent in walking from their home to
the school.
John’s home is 400 meters while Mary is 200 meters away from
the school. It took 400 seconds for John while Mary needed 200
seconds to reach the school.
 Speed
Speed is the measured in
scalar quantity
rate of that measures how the units of
distance fast an object is
covered at a moving w ith distance and
given time. respect to the time.
distance travelled
and the time.
Speed = Distance
Time
d
Vs=
t
Speed = Distance
Time
d
vs t
 In some examples, distance or
time is not given. In this case, the
equation below could help. Be
sure to cancel the same unit to
get the corresponding unit.

d d= vsxtime
t= or
vs d= (vs)(time)
Solve for Mary’s Speed

V=?
Solve for John’s Speed

V=?
 Sample Problem:
1. Lloyd takes 2hr to travel a distance of 40km
to reach the house of his friend. Calculate how
fast he reached his friend’s house.
2. Luis is a swimmer who can swim a 50m
Olympic pool size in 60s. How fast
can he swim?
3. A firetruck travels 35km in 32hrs. What is its
average speed in km/h? how about for m/s?
 Sample Problem:
4. Elma Muros, the fastest female sprinter in
Southeast Asia, can run a 200-m
distance course in 24.42 seconds. What is
Elma’s speed?
5. A car moves at a constant speed of 24 m/s.
find the distance covered after 12 seconds.
6. A vehicle is moving at constant speed of 79
km/h. how long would it take for it to cover
275m?
 Velocity
always vector the unit of
indicates the quantity that velocity is
speed and measures meter per
the direction speed in a second
of travel. given direction. (m/s)
velocity = displacement
time
d
v=
t
velocity = displacement
time
d
v t
In some examples, displacement
or time is not given. In this case,
the equation below could help. Be
sure to cancel the same unit to
get the corresponding unit.

d d= vxtime
t= or
v
d= (v)(time)
 Sample Problem:
1. Leighmar drove to the city to pick
up a friend. She went 3000 km east
in about 10 hours. Calculate her
velocity.
 Acceleration
a vector Negative- the
quantity; a Positive- the acceleration is
quantity w ith acceleration is in the opposite
magnitude in the same direction of
direction as the velocity
and direction (slows down).
the velocity
(speeds up).
acceleration=change in velocity
change in time
 Sample Problem:
1. A truck starting from rest reaches a
velocity of 75 kph in 5.0 seconds.
Calculate the truck’s acceleration in
m/𝑠2.
2. A motorcycle with an initial velocity of
12 m/s accelerates at a uniform rate of
3 m/𝑠2 for 5.0 s. Determine the final
velocity of the motorcycle.
 If the given are initial velocity,
acceleration, and time; the formula
of acceleration can be used to
determine the final velocity. This can
be done by multiplying both side of
the equation by t.
Thank you!
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