Name:______________________________Class: __________________ Date: __________________

In the space provided, write the letter of the term or phrase that best completes
each statement or best answers each question.

_____ 1. What is the speed of an object at rest?

a. 0.0 m/s c. 9.8 m/s
b. 1.0 m/s d. 9.81 m/s
_____ 2. Which of the following situations represents a negative displacement?
(Assume positive position is measured vertically upward along a
y-axis.)
a. A cat stands on a tree limb.
b. A cat jumps from the ground onto a tree limb.
c. A cat jumps from a lower tree limb to a higher one.
d. A cat jumps from a tree limb to the ground.
_____ 3. Which of the following units is the SI unit of velocity?
a. meter c. meter per second
b. metersecond d. second per meter

_____ 4. In the graph above, a toy car rolls from +3 m to +5 m. Which of the
following statements is true?
a. xf = +3 m c. x = +3 m
b. xi = +3 m d. vavg = 3 m/s
_____ 5. The slope of a line drawn tangent to a point on the curve of a position
versus time graph describes what concept?
a. acceleration c. instantaneous velocity
b. displacement d. position
_____ 6. Acceleration is defined as
a. rate of displacement.
b. the rate of change of displacement.
c. the change in velocity.
d. the rate of change of velocity.
_____ 7. What is the SI unit of acceleration?
a. m/s c. m/s2
b. m2/s d. ms2
_____ 8. If you know a car’s acceleration, the information you must have to
determine if the car’s velocity is increasing is the
a. direction of the car’s initial velocity.
b. direction of the car’s acceleration.
c. initial speed of the car.
d. final velocity of the car.
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_____ 9. If you know the acceleration of a car and its initial velocity, you can
predict which of the following?
a. the direction of the car’s final velocity
b. the magnitude of the car’s final velocity
c. the displacement of the car
d. all of the above
_____ 10. When a car’s velocity is positive and its acceleration is negative, what
is happening to the car’s motion?
a. The car slows down.
b. The car speeds up.
c. The car travels at constant speed.
d. The car remains at rest.
_____ 11. The graph at right describes the
motion of a ball. At what point
does the ball have an
instantaneous velocity of zero?
a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D
_____ 12. The motion of a ball on an inclined plane is described by the equation
x = 1/2a(t)2. This statement implies which of the following
quantities has a value of zero?
a. xi c. vi
b. xf d. tf
_____ 13. Acceleration due to gravity is also called
a. negative velocity. c. free-fall acceleration.
b. displacement. d. instantaneous velocity.
_____ 14. When there is no air resistance, objects of different masses dropped
from rest
a. fall with equal accelerations and with equal displacements.
b. fall with different accelerations and with different displacements.
c. fall with equal accelerations and with different displacements.
d. fall with different accelerations and with equal displacements.
_____ 15. Objects that are falling toward Earth in free fall move
a. faster and faster. c. at a constant velocity.
b. slower and slower. d. slower then faster.
_____ 16. Which would hit the ground first if dropped from the same height in a
vacuuma feather or a metal bolt?
a. the feather
b. the metal bolt
c. They would hit the ground at the same time.
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d. They would be suspended in a vacuum.
Use the graph below to answer questions 17-19.

_____ 17. During which interval is the cat at rest?

a. 0.05.0 s c. 10.015.0 s
b. 5.010.0 s d. 15.020.0 s
_____ 18. The cat has the fastest speed during which interval?
a. 0.05.0 s c. 10.015.0 s
b. 5.010.0 s d. 15.020.0 s
_____ 19. During which interval does the cat have the greatest positive velocity?
a. 0.05.0 s c. 10.015.0 s
b. 5.010.0 s d. 15.020.0 s
_____ 20. When a car’s velocity is negative and its acceleration is negative, what
is happening to the car’s motion?
a. The car slows down.
b. The car speeds up.
c. The car travels at constant speed.
d. The car remains at rest.
_____ 21. What does the graph on the right
illustrate about acceleration?
a. The acceleration varies.
b. The acceleration is zero.
c. The acceleration is constant.
d. The acceleration increases then
becomes constant.
_____ 22. In the graph on the right, how does
the acceleration at A compare with
the acceleration at B?
a. The acceleration at A is positive
and less than the acceleration
at B.
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b. The acceleration at B is positive and less than the acceleration at A.
c. The accelerations at A and B are each zero.
d. The accelerations at A and B cannot be determined.
_____ 23. Which of the following line segments on a velocity versus time graph
is physically impossible?
a. horizontal line
b. straight line with positive slope
c. straight line with negative slope
d. vertical line
_____ 24. In the graph at the right, at what
point is the speed of the ball
equal to its speed at B?
a. A
b. C
c. D
d. none of the above

_____ 25. A baseball catcher throws a ball vertically upward and catches it in the
same spot as it returns to the mitt. At what point in the ball’s path does
it experience zero velocity and nonzero acceleration at the same time?
a. midway on the way up
b. at the top of its path
c. the instant it leaves the catcher’s hand
d. the instant before it arrives in the catcher’s mitt
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SHORT ANSWER
1.What is the name of the length of the straight line drawn from an object’s initial
position to the object’s final position?
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2.Why is the direction of free-fall acceleration usually negative?
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3.Construct a graph of position versus time

for the motion of a dog, using the data in
the table at right. Explain how the graph
indicates that the dog is moving at a
constant speed.

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PROBLEM
1.A horse trots past a fencepost located 12 m to the left of a gatepost. It then
passes another fencepost located 24 m to the right of the gatepost 11 s later.
What is the average velocity of the horse?
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2.A rock is thrown downward from the top of a cliff with an initial speed of
12 m/s. If the rock hits the ground after 2.0 s, what is the height of the cliff?
(Disregard air resistance. a =  g = 9.81 m/s2.)

3.A biker travels at an average speed of 18 km/h along a 0.30-km straight segment
of a bike path. How much time does the biker take to travel this segment?

4.A hiker travels south along a straight path for 1.5 h with an average speed of
0.75 km/h and then travels north for 2.5 h with an average speed of 0.90 km/h.
What is the hiker’s displacement for the total trip?

5.A skater glides off a frozen pond onto a patch of ground at a speed of 1.8 m/s.
Here she is slowed at a constant rate of 3.00 m/s2. How fast is the skater
moving when she has slid 0.37 m across the ground?
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6.Human reaction time is usually about 0.20 s. If your lab partner holds a ruler
between your finger and thumb and releases it without warning, how far can
you expect the ruler to fall before you catch it? (Disregard air resistance.
a = g = 9.81 m/s2.)

7.A pair of glasses are dropped from the top of a 32.0 m high stadium. A pen is
dropped 2.00 s later. How high above the ground is the pen when the glasses
hit the ground? (Disregard air resistance. a = g = 9.81 m/s2.)