This document provides answers to self-assessment questions from Chapter 1 of the Cambridge International AS Level Physics textbook. It includes calculations of average speeds, displacements, velocities, and angles and magnitudes of resultant velocities for various scenarios involving motion.
This document provides answers to self-assessment questions from Chapter 1 of the Cambridge International AS Level Physics textbook. It includes calculations of average speeds, displacements, velocities, and angles and magnitudes of resultant velocities for various scenarios involving motion.
This document provides answers to self-assessment questions from Chapter 1 of the Cambridge International AS Level Physics textbook. It includes calculations of average speeds, displacements, velocities, and angles and magnitudes of resultant velocities for various scenarios involving motion.
This document provides answers to self-assessment questions from Chapter 1 of the Cambridge International AS Level Physics textbook. It includes calculations of average speeds, displacements, velocities, and angles and magnitudes of resultant velocities for various scenarios involving motion.
1 average speed = 120 60 = 2.0mms 1 4 average speed = 0.050m 0.40s =10.125ms 0.13ms
5 a Constant speed b Increasing speed (accelerating)
7 a Displacement b Speed c Velocity d Distance 8 Distance d = vt = 15000.2 = 300m. (Remember the 0.4s total time is that taken for the sound waves to travel out and be reflected back from the surface of the water.) 9 Time taken for orbit is one year =1365.25246060 = 31557600s. Distance travelled = circumference of orbit =21.51011 = 9.4251011m. So the Earths speed = 29.9kms1 30kms1. As the Earth orbits the Sun, its direction of motion keeps changing. Hence its velocity keeps changing. In the course of one year, its displacement is zero, so its average velocity is zero.
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a 85ms1 b Graph is a straight line through the origin, with gradient = 85ms1.
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a Graph is a straight line for the first 3h; then less steep for the last hour. b Cars speed in first three hours = 23kmh1 c Cars average speed in first four hours 1 = 84 4 =21kmh
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a Total distance travelled = 3.0+4.0 = 7.0km b, c The two parts of the journey are at 90 to each other, so the resultant displacement is given by Pythagoras theorem. displacement2 = 3.02+4.02 = 25.0, so displacement = 5.0km angle = tan1(4.0 3.0) = 53E ofN (or 37N of E)
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a, b 8.5km; 48W of S
6 For example, attach a card to a weight and
drop it through a light gate. Alternatively, attach ticker-tape to the falling mass.
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OA: constant speed.
AB: stationary. BC: reduced constant speed. CD: running back to gate.
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Answers to self-assessment questions
Swimmer aims directly across river; river
flows at right angles to where she aims. So resultant velocity is given by geometry: magnitude2 = 2.02+0.82 = 4.64 so magnitude = 4.64 = 2.154 2.2ms1 direction = tan1(0.8 2 ) 22 to the direct route (68 to the river bank)
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vertical 18 ms1
resultant 25 ms1
horizontal 17 ms1
b 17.3ms1 17ms1 c 43.944 to the vertical
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