Formative assessment

Name of the Student:

Subject: Physics Year:4

Unit Force and motion

Topic Speed, velocity and acceleration

Criteria A

Task:

A typical assessment on knowledge and understanding on Speed and velocity and

acceleration

Task clarification:

Students need to divide into group of two and solve the problem and answer the
questions. Students will do peer assessing the worksheet and also get the feedback
from the teacher.

1 What is the average speed of

a a car that travels 400 m in 20 s,
b an athlete who runs 1500 m in 4 minutes?
2 A train increases its speed steadily from 10 m/s to 20 m/s in
1 minute.
a What is its average speed during this time, in m/s?
b How far does it travel while increasing its speed?
3 A motorcyclist starts from rest and reaches a speed of 6 m/s
after travelling with uniform acceleration for 3 s. What is his
 acceleration?

4 An aircraft travelling at 600 km/h accelerates steadily

at 10 km/h per second. Taking the speed of sound as
1100 km/h at the aircraft’s altitude, how long will it take to
reach the ‘sound barrier’?

5 A vehicle moving with a uniform acceleration of 2 m/s2 has

a velocity of 4 m/s at a certain time. What will its velocity be
a 1 s later,
b 5 s later?

6 If a bus travelling at 20 m/s is subject to a steady

deceleration of 5 m/s2, how long will it take to come to rest?

7 The speeds of a car travelling on a straight road are given

below at successive intervals of 1 second.

1 with an average velocity of 4 m/s

2 16 m in 4 s
3 with a uniform acceleration of 2 m/s2.

Which statement(s) is (are) correct?

A 1, 2, 3 B 1, 2 C 2, 3 D 1 E 3
8 If a train travelling at 10 m/s starts to accelerate at 1 m/s2
for 15 s on a straight track, its final velocity in m/s is
A 5 B 10 C 15 D 20 E 25

9 Pete is driving down 7th street. He drives 150 meters in 18 seconds. Assuming he does
not speed up or slow down, what is his speed in meters per second?

10 A person jogs 4.0 km in 32 minutes, then 2.0 km in 22 minutes, and finally 1.0 km in
16 minutes. What is the jogger’s average speed in km per minute?

11 A train travels 120 km in 2 hours and 30 minutes. What is its average speed?
12 A plane’s average speed between two cities is 600 km/hr. If the trip takes 2.5 hrs. How
far does the plane fly?

13 George walks to a friend’s house. He walks 750 meters North, then realizes he walked
too far. He turns around and walks 250 meters South. The entire walk takes him 13
seconds. What is his speed per second?

14 In problem #13, what was George’s velocity in meters per second? (hint: draw a
picture to find his displacement)

15 A car traveling at 15 m/s starts to decelerate steadily. It comes to a complete stop in 10

seconds. What is it’s acceleration?
16 A train moves from rest to a speed of 25 m/s in 30.0 seconds. What is its acceleration?
17 If a train going 60 m/s hits the brakes, and it takes the train 1 minute 25 seconds to
stop, what is the train’s acceleration?

18 How long will it take a car to go from a complete stop to 44 km/hr if they are
accelerating at 5 km/hr2 ?

19 How long will it take a car to accelerate from 15.2 m/s to 23.5 m/s if the car has an
average acceleration of 3.2 m/s2 ?

20 A roller coaster is moving at 25 m/s at the bottom of a hill. Three seconds later it
reaches the top of the hill moving at 10 m/s. What was the acceleration of the coaster?

Answers:

1. a. 20m/s, b. 6.25m/s 9. 8.3 m/s 17.-0.7m/s2

2. a. 15m/s, b. 900m 10. 2.7 Km/min 18. 3.2 x 104s
3. 2m/s2 11. 13.33m/s 19.2.59s
4. 50s 12. 1500Km 20. -5m/s2
5. a. 6m/s. b. 14m/s 13. 77m/s
6. 4s 14.38.5m/s
7. A 15. -1.5m/s2
8. E 16.0.83m/s2