Practice Problems - Linear Kinematics

1.
Consider the following scenario: A hockey player’s position along a one-dimensional coordinate system is
+2 m. Three seconds later, the hockey player’s position is +5 m; five seconds after that, his position is -4 m;
and two seconds after that, his position is -1 m. What is the hockey player’s total displacement at the end
of the ten seconds?
A) -9 m
B) -3 m
C) 0m ANSWER: _______
D) 3m
E) 15 m
2. For the same scenario as above, what is the hockey player’s total distance covered at the end of the ten
seconds?
A) -9 m
B) -3 m
C) 0m ANSWER: _______
D) 3m
E) 15 m
3. A speed skater completes one lap of a 400 m track in 32 seconds. Which of the following statements is/are
true?
A) The skater’s average velocity over the 400 m is smaller in magnitude

than his average speed.
B) The skater’s average velocity over the 400 m is larger in magnitude
than his average speed.
ANSWER: _______
C) The skater’s average velocity and his average speed over the 400 m
are both equal to zero.
D) The skater’s average speed and the magnitude of his average velocity
over the 400 m are equal and are greater than zero.
4. Which of the following statements best describes the motion represented by the graph shown below?
A) Motion in the positive direction with a constant velocity.

B) Motion in the negative direction with a constant velocity.
C) Motion in the positive direction for the first 5 seconds, followed by ANSWER: _______
motion in the negative direction for the next 5 seconds.
D) No motion: the object is at rest.
5. Which of the following plots best represents the motion of an individual who ran for 30 minutes in one
direction with a constant, non-zero velocity, and then turned around and ran for 30 minutes in the opposite
direction with a constant, non-zero velocity of equal magnitude?
A)
B)
ANSWER: _______
C)
D)
6. Which of the following statements is true regarding Point A & Point B on the graph?
A) Point B represents larger speed and larger velocity.

B) Point B represents smaller speed but larger velocity.
ANSWER: _______
C) Point B represents larger speed but smaller velocity.
D) Point B represents smaller speed and smaller velocity
1. A runner completed 5½ laps of a circular 400 m track. If the track has a diameter of 127.3 m, what
were the runner’s distance and displacement?
2. A runner accelerates at 12.4 m/s2 for 0.5 seconds. If her final velocity is 9.7 m/s, what was her initial
velocity?
3. The final stage of the Tour de France requires a 25 km climb at an average incline of 12°. Lance
Armstrong won the stage with a time of 1 hr : 18 min.
a) What was Lance Armstrong’s average speed?
b) What was the total elevation change?
c) What was Lance Armstrong’s average vertical velocity?
4. A forestry surveyor walked 2.7 km north, then 3.1 km east, then 4.2 km north, then 7.2 km east,
then 2.2 km south, then 4.4 km 30° south of east. She completed the trip in 6:14:22 (hr:min:s).
a) What was the total distance travelled?
b) What was her average speed?
c) What was her total displacement?
d) What was her average velocity?

5. A runner won a 10,000 meter race on a 400 m track by running at an average speed of 5.98 meters
per second. What was his time for the race (expressed in min : sec)? What was his average velocity
for the race?
6. A one hundred meter freestyle swim race (2 lengths of a 50 meter pool) is won in 49.87 seconds.
Determine the swimmer’s average speed and average velocity.
7. Two runners start at the same point on a 400 m track. Runner A travels at an average speed of
4 m/s while Runner B travels at an average speed of 5 m/s.
a) How long will it take for Runner B to lap Runner A? Express your answer in the form of min:sec.
b) What is the distance and displacement of each runner when Runner B laps Runner A?
8. With 800 meters left to go in a cross-country race, a runner was travelling at 7.25 m/s. A fairly
steep uphill to the finish line forced a reduced pace and, 6 seconds later, the runner had slowed to
4.16 m/s. What was the average acceleration during this period?
9. A car in a Formula One race was travelling at 210 km/hr when it spun out of control and hit the
wall. After only 0.15 seconds, the car had come to a complete stop. What was the car’s acceleration
as a result of hitting the wall? Express this acceleration in SI units (m/s2) and as a number of times
the acceleration due to gravity on Earth (g = -9.81 m/s2).
10. A skier has just begun descending a 20° slope at a constant acceleration of 2 m/s2 in the direction
parallel to the slope. What is the skier’s velocity after 15 s? Express you answer in Cartesian vector
notation, assuming that the skier’s starting position is the origin, with coordinates (0,0).

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A) The skater’s average velocity over the 400 m is smaller in magnitude

A) Motion in the positive direction with a constant velocity.

A) Point B represents larger speed and larger velocity.

a) What was Lance Armstrong’s average speed?

b) What was the total elevation change?

c) What was Lance Armstrong’s average vertical velocity?

a) What was the total distance travelled?

b) What was her average speed?

c) What was her total displacement?

d) What was her average velocity?

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