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PHYS1 Assignment 2

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PHYS1 (Kinematics in 1D)

Worksheet
Answer the following problems and show your solutions.
[10 pts each]
1. A whale swims due east for a distance of 7.2 km, turns around and
goes due west for 1.8 km, and finally turns around again and heads
3.5 km due east.
a. What is the total distance travelled by the whale?
b. What is the displacement of the whale?
2. Kadita drives her scooter 8 kilometres north. She stops for lunch and then drives 5 kilometres east.
a. What distance did she cover?
b. What was her displacement?
3. A ship sails 6.75 km west and then 10 km east.
a. What is the distance moved by the ship?
b. What is the ship’s net displacement?
4. A leaf is blown by the wind. The leaf moves 7 m forward and then 3 m backward.
a. What is the distance moved by the leaf?
b. What is the leaf’s net forward displacement?
5. A horse in a field moves 23 m to the east and 5 m to the west.
a. What is the horse’s net distance?
b. What is its displacement?
[5 pts each]
6. A car travels 164 kilometers in 3.2 hours. Its average speed for the trip is ______.
7. A marble rolls 5.2 m in 1.56 s. What was the marble's average speed?
8. A pitcher throws a baseball from the pitcher’s mound to home plate in 0.46 s. The distance is 24.4 m.
What was the average speed of the baseball?
9. Cassie walked to her friend’s house with an average speed of 1.60 m/s. The distance between the
houses is 205 m. How long did the trip take her?
10. Mia jogs with an average velocity of 2.4 m/s east. What is her displacement after 48 seconds?
11. Alucard walks along a straight path from his house to his school. How long will it take him to get to
school if he walks 434 m west with an average velocity of 1.8 m/s west?
12. Johnson drives along a straight highway for 0.25 h with a displacement of 10 km south. What is the
Johnson’s average velocity?
13. How much time does it take a person to walk 15 km north at a velocity of 6.5 km/h?
14. An arrow is moving at 45 m/s and travels for 5 seconds. How far did the arrow travel?
15. What is the velocity of a plane that traveled 3500 km west from New York to California in 5 hours?

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