Physics I Problems PDF
Physics I Problems PDF
Physics I Problems PDF
2.5 . Starting from the front door of your ranch house, you walk
60.0 m due east to your windmill, and then you turn around and
slowly walk 40.0 m west to a bench where you sit and watch the
sunrise. It takes you 28.0 s to walk from your house to the windmill and then 36.0 s to walk from the windmill to the bench. For
the entire trip from your front door to the bench, what are (a) your
average velocity and (b) your average speed?
2.6 .. A Honda Civic travels in a straight line along a road. Its
distance x from a stop sign is given as a function of time t by the
equation x1t2 = at 2 - bt 3, where a = 1.50 m>s2 and b =
0.0500 m>s3. Calculate the average velocity of the car for each
time interval: (a) t = 0 to t = 2.00 s; (b) t = 0 to t = 4.00 s;
(c) t = 2.00 s to t = 4.00 s.
EXERCISES
1.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
t (s)
2.10 . A physics professor leaves her house and walks along the
sidewalk toward campus. After 5 min it starts to rain and she
returns home. Her distance from her house as a function of time is
shown in Fig. E2.10. At which of the labeled points is her velocity
(a) zero? (b) constant and positive? (c) constant and negative?
(d) increasing in magnitude? (e) decreasing in magnitude?
Figure E2.10
x (m)
IV
400
III
300
V
200
II
100
t (min)