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Motion in 1-Dimension: Part 3 (Acceleration and Velocity vs.

Time Graphs) Name: Period

Notes Practice Examples and Checks for Understanding


Acceleration Check for Understanding 1:
Based on your observations from the moving man simulation
write a general rule for when an acceleration causes an object to
speed up, and when it causes an object to slow down

Check for Understanding 2


Average and Instantaneous Acceleration Which of the following statements, describes motion in which the
person or object is accelerating?
1. bird starting at rest, flies along a straight path from one tree to
another, and comes to rest on the 2nd tree
2. a dog walks at a constant speed along a straight sidewalk
3. a girl runs along a straight path the same distance each second
4. a truck moves around a curve without changing speed

Practice Example1:
A bungee jumper has velocity 75.6km/h downward just as the
bungee cord begins to stretch. The bungee cord slows the person
Acceleration and Position vs. Time Graphs to a stop and shoots them back upward. The person’s velocity is
14.0 m/s upward at a time 2.50 seconds after the bungee cord
first began to stretch. Determine the average acceleration caused
by the bungee cord.

Knowing that acceleration is the rate at which velocity changes,


what do each of the velocity vs. time graph tell you about the
acceleration of the object whose motion they represent?

Practice Example 2

1) Is the acceleration of this object constant?

2) During which time intervals is the acceleration positive,


negative or zero?

3) During which time interval(s) is the object slowing


down?
Acceleration and Velocity vs. Time Graphs
Practice Example 3
Starting from rest a powerful car accelerates at 4.00 m/s2 for
6.00s. Find the car’s displacement during this time interval

Practice Example 4
A steam driven catapult accelerates a 20 ton aircraft from rest at
an acceleration of 22 m/s2 in for a period of 3.0s in order to
launch the plane from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Determine
the length needed for the runway on the deck of the carrier.

Kinematics Equations for Constant Acceleration

Check for Understanding 3


For an object in free fall, what would a velocity time graph look
like? What would a position time graph look like?
Sketch a graph of each assuming the object starts at rest and
moves downward

Practice Example 5
Free Fall-Definition and Examples A baseball is thrown straight up with an initial velocity of
20.0m/s. Find the maximum height to which the ball will rise. Find
the total time the ball takes to return to its initial position

Check for Understanding 4


A rubber band is shot straight up from the floor inside a vacuum
in a laboratory experiment. The rubber band has an initial
velocity of 8.50 m/s. Consider down to be the negative direction
1. What’s the velocity of the rubber band at the
very top of its flight?_______
2. What’s the acceleration of the rubber band on
the way up?________
3. What’s the acceleration of the rubber band at
the very top________
4. What’s the acceleration of the rubber band on
the way down?________

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