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TUTORIAL
CHAPTER 3: ONE DIMENSIONAL MOTION

APRIL 2007

1. Define velocity and acceleration.

2. A cart with an initial velocity of 5.0 m/s experiences a constant acceleration of 2.0 m/s2. What is
the cart's displacement during the first 6.0 s of its motion?

3. An object starts from rest and undergoes uniform acceleration. During the first second it travels
5.0 m. How far will it move during the next second?

4. An antelope moving with constant acceleration covers the distance between two points 70 m
apart in 7 s. Its speed as it passes the second point is 15 m/s.
i. What is its speed at the first point?
ii. What is the acceleration?
iii. Draw a graph velocity against time for the antelope

5. An object is thrown upward with a speed of 36 m/s. How long does it take to return to its starting
point?

6. A stone is thrown downward with initial speed 8 m/s from a height of 25 m. Find
iv. the time taken to reach the ground and
v. the speed with which it strike.

Oct 2007

7. A roller coaster car moves 70.0 m horizontally and then rises 45.0 m at an angle of 30.0° above
the horizontal. What is its displacement from its starting point?

8. A speedboat moving at 40.0 m/s approaches a buoy marker ahead. The speedboat pilot slows
the boat with a constant deceleration of 3.00 m/s2 by reducing the throttle. How long does it take
the boat to reach the buoy? (Assume the speedboat stop at the buoy)

April 2008

9. A girl runs back and forth on a track three times covering a total distance of 500 m. Find the total
displacement and distance moved.

10. Ahmad drives 60 km from his house to the petrol station in a car moving at a constant speed of
60 km/h. Then he moves the same distance to a shop at a constant speed of 120 km/h. The
average speed for the entire trip from his house to the shop is _______.

11. How long will a ball take to fall if it starts from rest and moves down for 44.0 m?

12. A stone is thrown at an initial speed of 8.0 m/s at an angle of 35° above the horizontal. What is
the speed of the ball when it returns to the same horizontal level?

13. Refer to Figure 1.

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i. What is the acceleration at 1.0 s?

ii. What is the acceleration at 3.0 s?
iii. What is the average acceleration from 0 to 8.0 s?
iv. What is the displacement from 0 to 8.0 s?

Oct 2008

14. A snail traveling at a snail's pace of 4 m / day decides to slow down to only 1 m / day and allows
himself 2 minutes in which to make the change. Calculate its acceleration.

15. A ball is thrown upward at 20 m/s. During the first second, its average velocity is ____.

16. Figure 1 below shows the velocity versus time graph of the linear motion of a car.

17. Refering to Figure 1, find

i. the acceleration at t = 2 seconds
ii. the time taken to move with constant velocity
iii. the acceleration at t = 6 seconds
iv. the total displacement traveled by the car
v. the average velocity of the car for the whole journey.

April 2009

18. A bus travels 90 m due south in 15 s. Then the bus turns around and travels 40 m due north in 5
s. What is the magnitude of the average velocity of the car during this 20 s interval?
(Ans: 2.5 m/s)
19. A ball is thrown straight up and returns to its starting point in 10 s. What is the initial speed of the
ball?
(Ans: 49 m/s)
20. Refer to Figure 3.

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i. What is the velocity at t = 1.0 s?

ii. What is the velocity at t = 4.0 s?
iii. What is the velocity at t = 5.5 s?
iv. What is the average velocity from 0 to 6.0 s?
(Ans: 10m/s,0,-40m/s,0)
21. A ball is thrown straight up with a speed of 30 m/s.
v. How long does it take for the ball to reach its maximum height?
vi. What is the maximum height reached by the ball?
(Ans: 3.1s, 46 m))

Oct 2009

22. On a running track 400 m long an athlete completed 8 laps in 14.7 min. Calculate the speed of
the athlete.

23. A sports car starts from stationary and achieved a final velocity of 79.2 m/s in 18.6 s. Find the
acceleration of the car?

24. A ball thrown horizontally at 18 m/s from the roof of a building lands 28 m from the base of the
building. What is the height of the building?

April 2010

25. A car moving at 15 m/s decelerates at 5 m/s2. How far will it travel until it stops?
(Ans: 22.5 m)
26. A ball is thrown downwards from a cliff with a speed of 30 m/s. What is its velocity after 3 s?
(Ans: 60 m/s)
27. An aeroplane starts from rest and accelerates along the ground before takeoff. It moves 600 m in
12 s. Calculate:
i. the acceleration of the aeroplane
ii. its speed at the end of 12 s.
(Ans: 8.33 m/s2; 100 m/s)
28. Define velocity and speed.

29. Siti is driving through town at 25.0 m/s. After 5 seconds, she begins to decelerate at a constant
rate of 1 m/s2. Eventually Siti comes to a complete stop.
iii. Sketch and label a velocity-time graph of Siti's motion.
iv. Calculate the time taken for Siti to stop her car.
v. Determine the distance travelled by the car from the graph.
(Ans: 25s; 437.5 m)

Oct 2010

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30. An object starts from rest and undergoes uniform acceleration. During the first second it travels
5.0 m. Calculate the distance travelled during the third second?

31. If you run a complete loop around an outdoor track (400 m), in 100 s, your average velocity is
____.

32. An object is thrown upward with a speed of 12 m/s on the surface of planet X where the
acceleration due to gravity is 1.5 m/s. How long does it take for the object to reach the maximum
height?

33. An airplane travels at 950 km/h. How long does it take to travel 1.00 km?

34. You are driving home from school at a steady speed of 95 km/h for 130 km. It then begins to rain
and you slowdown to 65 km/h. You arrive home after driving 3 hours.
i. How far is your hometown from school?
ii. What was your average speed?

35. A person jogs eight complete laps around an 800 m track in a total time of 12.5 min. Calculate the
average speed of the person in S.I. units.

36. A book is thrown downward with an initial speed of 15 m/s from a 30 m height balcony. Find
iii. the speed of the book at the height of 15 m.
iv. the time taken to reach the ground and
v. the speed with which it strikes the ground.

37. A passenger in the taxi saw a car in front of it moved with the velocity of 20 m/s while the taxi
moved with the velocity of 10 m/s in the same direction. Find the actual velocity of the car?

April 2011

38. At highway speeds, a particular automobile is capable of an acceleration of about 1.8 ms2. At this
rate, how long does it take to accelerate from 80 km/h to 110 km/h?
(Ans: 4.7 s)
39. A ball is thrown straight up and returns to its starting point in 5 s. What is the initial speed of the
ball? (Ans:24.5 m/s)

40. A ball is thrown horizontally from the roof of a building 9.0 m tall and lands 8.5 m from the base.
What was the ball's initial speed? (Ans: 6.3 m/s)

Sept 2011
41. A car travels the first half of its total distance at a speed of 10 m/s and another half at a speed of
30 m/s. What is the average speed of the car? (Ans: 15 m/s)

Mac 2012
42. A car starts from rest and accelerates with a constant acceleration of 1.00 m/s 2 for 3.00 s. The
car continues for 5.00 s at constant velocity. How far has the car travelled from its starting point?
(Ans: 19.5m)

43. A car is travelling with a constant speed when the driver suddenly applies the brakes, giving the
car a deceleration of 3.50 m/s. If the car comes to a stop in a distance of 30.0 m, what was the
car's original speed? (Ans: 14.5 m/s)

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Oct 2012
44. A train moving at 20 m/s decelerates at 5 m/s2. How far will it travel from the time it starts to
accelerate until it stops?

45. An object is thrown upward with a speed of 36 m/s. How long does it take to return to its starting
point?

46. A subway train starts from rest at a station and accelerates at a rate of 1.6 m/s 2 for 14.0 s. It
moves at constant speed for 70.0 s and slows down at a rate of 3.50 m/s 2 until it stops at the next
station.
i. Sketch the velocity against time graph for the whole journey.
ii. Calculate the total distance covered.

Mac 2013
47. Find the average velocity for the motion of a particle in Figure 1 at time t=9.0s.
(Ans: 0.67 m/s)
Sept 2013
48. A car moving on the highway at 90 km/h decelerates at 50 km/h2. Predict how long does it take
for the car to come to a complete stop. (Ans: 1.8 s)
49. A boy ran two laps on a 400 m track. Determine what was the total displacement and distance he
travelled. (Ans: 0 m; 800 m)
50. A ball fell from a 100 m high building. Predict the time taken for the ball to reach the ground.
(Ans: 4.5 s)
51. A ball is thrown vertically upwards at 5 m/s. after reaching the apex, what speed does the ball
have when it returns to the initial point? (Ans: 5 m/s)
52. A man gets into his parked car and begis to travel at constant acceleration until a constant speed
of 25 m/s in 25 seconds. He travels in that speed for 10 seconds and then abruptly decelerates at
1 m/s2 until the car comes to a complete stop.
i. Sketch a velocity versus time grapg for the event and label it correctly.
ii. Express the acceleration at t=5s and at t=30 s.
iii. From the graph, calculate the distance travelled.
(Ans: 1 m/s2, 0 m/s2; 875 m)

53. A car is initially travelling at 50.0 km/h. the brakes are applied and the car stops iver a distance of
35 m. Estimate the magnitude of the car’s acceleration while it was braking. (Ans: 2.8 m/s2)
54. A rock is dropped from a vertical cliff and it takes 7.0 s to reach the ground below the cliff.
Determine the height of the cliff. (Ans: 240m)
55. A kangaroo running at a constant acceleration covers the distance between two points 70.0 m
apart in 7.0 s. Its speed as it passes the second point is 15.0 m/s.
iv. Find the speed at the first point.
v. Calculate the acceleration.
vi. Sketch the graph of velocity against time for the kangaroo.
(Ans: 5 m/s; 1.43 m/s2)
Mac 2014

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56. Given an object moving at constant acceleration a in time t and with initial velocity u, write down
an expression to find the displacement, s.

57. Using Figure 1, calculate

i. The acceleration at t=4 seconds.
ii. The total displacement in 40 seconds.
iii. The average velocity after 28 seconds. (Ans: 1.25 m/s2; 90m; 1.07 m/s)

Sept 2014
58. The velocity-time graph shown in Figure 2 is for a body which starts from rest, accelerates
uniformly to a velocity of 10 m/s in 8 s, maintain that velocity for further 8 s and then slowdown
uniformly to rest. The entire journey takes 25 s.

Calculate the:
i. The acceleration between t=0 and t= 8s.
ii. The total distance traveled by the body.
iii. The deceleration of the body during the final stage of the motion.
(Ans: 1.25 m/s2; 165 m; 1.11 m/s2)
Mac 2015
59. A car moving at constant speed travels 150 m in 8.0 s. It then brakes and comes to a stop after
5.0 s. Determine its deceleration.
60. A penguin falls from a seaside cliff and hits the cold water below 3.5 s later. Determine the height
of the cliff.
61. On a 400 m long running track, an athlete completed 8 rounds in 14.7 min. Calculate the speed
and velocity of the athlete.

Sept 2015
62. You are driving home from school steadily at 95 km/h for 130 km. During raining, you begin to
slow down to 65 km/h. You arrive home after driving for 3 hours and 20 minutes. Calculate your
total distance travelled from home to school. (Ans: 376km)
63. An object is thrown vertically upward with a velocity of 15 m/s from the top of a building of 15 m
high. Determine the time taken for the objects to reach the ground. (Ans: 3.9 s)
64. According to (b), can the acceleration of the object has a negative quantity? Justify.

Mac 2016
65. State the two differences between velocity and speed.
66. Give three examples of one-dimensional motions.
67. A car starts to travel from initial velocity of 40 m/s and accelerates to 120 m/s for 10s. The car
then moves at constant velocity for a distance of 600 m and then decelerates at a rate of 15 m/s2
until it stops.
i. Sketch a velocity-time graph for the whole journey.
ii. Express the total distance travelled from the graph in c (i). (Ans: 1880m)

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