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Exercise 2 - Linear Motion

This document contains 13 questions about linear motion, including definitions of terms like distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration. It asks the learner to calculate values like acceleration, deceleration, time, distance, and velocity given graphs or descriptions of an object's motion. For example, it may provide the initial and final velocities and ask for the time or distance. It also asks the learner to distinguish between speed and velocity, and acceleration and deceleration. The questions cover kinematic equations and involve calculating values from velocity-time or distance-time graphs.

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Exercise 2 - Linear Motion

This document contains 13 questions about linear motion, including definitions of terms like distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration. It asks the learner to calculate values like acceleration, deceleration, time, distance, and velocity given graphs or descriptions of an object's motion. For example, it may provide the initial and final velocities and ask for the time or distance. It also asks the learner to distinguish between speed and velocity, and acceleration and deceleration. The questions cover kinematic equations and involve calculating values from velocity-time or distance-time graphs.

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LINEAR MOTION (DBS10012) JUN 2020

1. State the definition of the following terms and its SI unit :


i) Distance
ii) Displacement
iii) Speed
iv) velocity
v) Acceleration
vi) Deceleration

2. State differences between :


i) Speed and velocity
ii) Acceleration and deceleration

3. An aircraft accelerates uniformly from rest at 3.1 m/s2 to reach its take-off velocity of
100 m/s.
i) How long does it take for the aircraft to leave the ground?
ii) How far does it travel during the take-off?

4. A bus moving at a velocity of 110 kmh-1 stop after its brakes are applied. The distance
when the brakes are applied till it stopped in 500 m. Calculate:
i. Acceleration of the bus.
ii. The time taken for the bus to stop.

5. A car started from a rest and accelerated at 10.23m/s2 for 5.5 second. Calculate the distance
covered by the car.

6. A space-rocket is launched and it accelerated uniformly from rest to 160m/s in 0.075


minutes. Calculate how far the rocket traveled within that time.
7. A motorcycle travelling at 20ms-1 stops after a distance of 50m. Calculate:
a) The deceleration
b) The time taken for it to stop.

8. A particle which initially at rest, moves in a straight line with uniform acceleration and covers
0.5km in 1.2 minutes. Calculate:
a) The acceleration
b) The final velocity of the object. Give your answer in SI units.

9. An apple falls from its tree to the ground with an acceleration of 9.81 ms-2 for 1.8 seconds.
Calculate:
a) The height from where the apple falls.
b) The final velocity just before it hits the ground

10. The graph below shows the velocity-time graph of an object.


V(m/s)

t(s)
5 15 21

a) The velocity at point A if its acceleration is 2.7m/s2.


b) The deceleration right before it stops.
c) The distance of the whole movement.

11. A car starts from rest and accelerates at a constant acceleration of 3.2ms-2 for 7 seconds. The car
then travels at a constant velocity for 9 seconds. The brakes are then applied and the car stops
in 8 seconds.
a) Sketch the velocity-time graph for this movement
b) Calculate the maximum velocity of the car in this movement.
a) Calculate the total distance travelled.

12. A moving truck initially decelerates from 40ms-1 to 10 ms-1 in 12 seconds. The truck then moves
with uniform velocity and finally accelerates for 7 seconds to reach a velocity of 30m-1. This
whole movement covers a distance of 1 km.
a) Sketch the velocity-time graph for this movement
b) Calculate the acceleration of the truck.
c) Calculate the distance travelled when the truck is accelerating.
d) Calculate the distance travelled when the truck is decelerating.
e) Calculate the total time taken for this whole journey.

13. Figure 2(b) shows a velocity-time graph for the motion of an object.

v (ms-1)

80

40
15
10

20
5
t (s)
20 C
30
0 10 15

Figure 2(b) / Rajah 2(b)

i. Determine the maximum velocity, the constant velocity and the total time taken for the
whole journey by the object.
ii. Calculate the acceleration of the object in the first 10 seconds.
iii. Calculate the deceleration of the object.
iv. Calculate the total distance travelled by the object for the whole journey in 30 seconds.

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