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UNIFORM MOTION
1. A hiker travels in a straight line for 40 mins with an average velocity of magnitude 1.25 m/s. What
distance does he cover during this time? Ans: 3000 m or 3 km
2. A car odometer reads 22,487 km at the start of a trip and 22,891 km at the end. The trip took 4 hours.
What was the car’s average speed in m/s? Ans: 28.055 m/s
3. A hobbyist is testing a new model rocket engine by using it to propel a cart along a model railroad
track. He determines that its motion along the x-axis is described by the equation: x(t) = (0.160 m/s2) t2 .
Compute for the magnitude of the instantaneous velocity of the cart at time t = 3 seconds. Ans: 0.96 m/s
4. A car has velocity v given as a function of time v(t) = A + Bt2 , where A = 4 m/s & B = 0.2 m/s3 .
Calculate:
a. The average acceleration for the time interval tO = 0 to tF = 5 sec. Ans: 1 m/s2
b. The magnitude of the instantaneous acceleration for t = 0 and t = 5 secs. Ans: 0 m/s2, 2m/s2
5. What is the acceleration of a car that travels in a straight line at a constant speed of 150 km/hr?
UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED MOTION
6. A car is traveling along a straight road at 10 m/s. It accelerates uniformly for 25 seconds until it is
moving at 35 m/s. What was the acceleration? Ans: 1 m/s2
7. A car covers a distance of 50 m in 10 seconds while smoothly slowing down to a final speed of 2.5
m/s.
a. Find the car's original speed. Ans: 7.5 m/s
b. Find the car's acceleration. Ans: 0.5 m/s2
8. A subway train starts from rest at a station and accelerates at a rate of 1.60 m/s2 for 8 sec. It runs at
constant speed for 70 sec, and decelerates at 2.5 m/s2 until it stops at the next station. Find the total
distance (traveled) covered. Ans: 980 m
NON-UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED MOTION
9. The position of a toy car is found to be described by the following equation: x = (-5t3 +4t2+ 6) mm.
a. Determine the displacement of the toy car from t = 2 s to t = 5 s.
b. What is the acceleration at t = 5 s?
10. The acceleration of a motorcycle is given by:

2
𝑎(𝑡) = 𝐴𝑡 – 𝐵𝑡 ,
3 𝑚
where 𝐴 = 1.5 𝑚/𝑠 and 𝐵 = 0.12 𝑠4.
The motorcycle is at rest at the origin at t=0.
(a) Find the position and velocity as a function of time.
(b) Calculate the maximum velocity and maximum displacement it attain.
FREE-FALLING BODY
1. If a flea can jump to a height of 0.75 m, what is its initial velocity as it leave the ground? For how
much time is it in the air?
2. A brick is dropped from the roof of a building. The brick strikes the ground after 5 seconds.
a. How tall, in meters, is the building (magnitude only)?
b. What is the magnitude of the brick’s velocity just before it reaches the ground?
3. A student throws a water balloon vertically downward from the top of a building. The balloon leaves
the thrower’s hand with a speed of 15 m/s.
a. What is its speed in 5 seconds?
b. How far does it fall in 2 seconds?
c. What is the magnitude of the velocity after falling 10 m?
4. A pitcher on the ground tosses a baseball vertically upward with an initial speed of 12 m/s.
a. How long does the ball take to reach its maximum height?
b. What is the velocity of the ball when it reaches a point 5 m above the release point?
c. What is the velocity of the ball when the pitcher catches the ball?
PROJECTILE MOTION
1. A bullet is fired at an initial velocity of 350 m/s and at an angle of 50° with the horizontal. Neglecting
air resistance. Determine:
(a) the range. Ans: 12, 310.10 m
(b) the travel time of the bullet before hitting the ground. Ans: 54.72 s
2. A bullet is fired at an angle of 75° with the horizontal with an initial velocity of 420 m/s. How high can
it travel after 2 seconds? How far horizontally did it travel after that same 2 seconds? Ans: 791.78 m,
217.41 m
3. A plane is flying horizontally at 350 km/hr at an altitude of 420 m. At this instant, a bomb is released.
How far horizontally from this point will the bomb hit the ground? Ans: 900 m
4. A man in a hot-air balloon is at a height of 150 m above the ground. If the balloon is rising at 15 m/s
and the man drops an apple, find the highest point reached by the apple? Ans: 161.47 m
5. A ball is thrown from a tower 30 m high above the ground with a velocity of 300 m/s directed at 20°
from the horizontal. How long will the ball hit the ground? Ans: 21.23 s
6. From the roof of a building, a man throws an apple with a speed of 15 m/s at an angle of 30˚ above
the horizontal. The apple lands on a balcony of a second building. If the balcony is 10 m below the roof
of the first building, how far apart are the two buildings? Ans: 31.05 m
7. A coin slides off a horizontal table top at a speed of 5 m/s and lands on a plate on the floor 2 m from
the foot of the table. What is the height of the table? Ans: 0.784 m

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UNIFORM MOTION

UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED MOTION

a. Determine the displacement of the toy car from t = 2 s to t = 5 s.

b. What is the acceleration at t = 5 s?

10. The acceleration of a motorcycle is given by:

The motorcycle is at rest at the origin at t=0.

(a) Find the position and velocity as a function of time.

(b) Calculate the maximum velocity and maximum displacement it attain.

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