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Physics 11 Unit 3: Acceleration: Practice

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Physics 11 More Practice on Constant Acceleration

1. A golf ball rolls up a hill toward a mini-golf hole.
a. If it stars with a velocity of 2.0 m/s and accelerates at a constant rate of -0.50 m/s
2
, what
is its velocity after 2.0 s? (1.0 m/s)
b. If the acceleration occurs for 6.0 s, what is its final velocity? (-1.0 m/s)
c. Describe, in words, the motion of the golf ball.

2. A bus traveling at 30 km/h accelerates at a constant 3.5 m/s
2
for 6.8 s. What is its final
velocity in km/h? (116 km/h)

3. If a car accelerates from rest at a constant 5.5 m/s
2
, how long will be required to reach 28 m/s?
(5.1 s)

4. A car slows from 22 m/s to 3.0 m/s with a constant acceleration of -2.1 m/s
2
. How long does
it require? (9.0 s)

5. A race car travelling at 44 m/s is uniformly accelerated to a velocity of 22 m/s over an 11 s
interval. What is its displacement during this time? (3.6 10
2
m)

6. A rocket travelling at 88 m/s is accelerated uniformly to 132 m/s over a 15 s interval. What
is its displacement during this time? (1.7 10
3
m)

7. A car accelerates at a constant rate from 15 m/s to 25 m/s while it travels 125 m. How long
does this motion take? (6.3 s)

8. A bike rider accelerates constantly to a velocity of 7.5 m/s during 4.5 s. The bikes
displacement is 19 m. What was the initial velocity of the bike? (0.94 m/s)

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9. An airplane starts from rest and accelerates at a constant 3.00 m/s
2
for 30.0 s before leaving
the ground. What is its displacement during this time? (1.35 10
3
m)

10. Starting from rest, a race car moves 110 m in the first 5.0 s of uniform acceleration. What is
the cars acceleration? (8.8 m/s
2
)

11. A driver brings a car travelling at 22 m/s to a full stop in 2.0 s. Assume its acceleration is
constant.
a. What is the cars acceleration? (-11 m/s
2
)
b. How far does it travel before stopping? (22 m)

12. A biker passes a lamppost at the crest of a hill at 4.5 m/s. She accelerates down the hill at a
constant rate of 0.40 m/s
2
for 12 s. How are does she move down the hill during this time?
(83 m)

13. An airplane accelerates from a velocity of 21 m/s at the constant rate of 3.0 m/s
2
over 535 m.
What is its final velocity? (60 m/s)

14. The pilot stops the same plane in 484 m using a constant acceleration of -8.0 m/s
2
. How fast
was the plane moving before braking began? (88 m)

15. A person wearing a shoulder harness can survive a car crash if the acceleration is smaller
than -300 m/s
2
. Assuming constant acceleration, how far must the front end of the car
collapse if it crashes while going 101 km/h? (1.32 m)

16. A car is initially sliding backwards down a hill at -25 km/h. The driver guns the car. By the
time the cars velocity is 35 km/h, it is 3.2 m from its starting point. Assuming the car was
uniformly accelerated, find the acceleration. (7.3 m/s
2
)

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17. A brick falls freely from a high scaffold.
a. What is its velocity after 4.0 s? (39 m/s [downward])
b. How far does the brick fall during the first 4.0 s? (78 m)

18. If you drop a golf ball, how far does it fall in 0.5 s? (- 1.2 m)

19. A spacecraft travelling at a velocity of 1210 m/s is uniformly accelerated at -150 m/s
2
. If the
acceleration lasts for 8.68 s, what is the final velocity of the craft? (- 90 m/s)

20. A man falls 1.0 m to the floor.
a. How long does the fall take? (0.45 s)
b. How fast is he going when he hits the floor? (- 4.4 m/s)

21. On wet pavement, a car can be accelerated with a maximum acceleration a = 0.20 g before its
tires slip.
a. Starting from rest, how fast is it moving after 2.0 s? (3.9 m/s)
b. How far has it moved after 4.0 s? (16 m)

22. A pitcher throws a baseball straight up with an initial speed of 27 m/s.
a. How long does it take the ball to reach its highest point? (2.8 s)
b. How high does the ball rise above its release point? (37 m)

PH 11 - More questions on Freely Falling Objects (g = 9.8 m/s
2
)

1. A golf ball is released from rest at the tip of a very tall building. Neglecting air resistance,
calculate the position and velocity of the ball after 2.00 s. (-19.6 m; -19.6 m/s)

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2. A stone is thrown from the top of a building with an initial velocity of 20.0 m/s straight
upward, at an initial height of 50.0 m above the ground. The stone just misses the edge of the
roof on its way down. Determine (a) the time needed for the stone to reach its maximum
height, (b) the maximum height, (c) the time needed for the stone to return to the height from
which it was thrown and the velocity of the stone at that instant; (d) the time needed for the
stone to reach the ground, and (e) the velocity and position of the stone at t = 5.00 s.
Neglecting the air resistance. (2.04 s; 20.4 m; 4.08 s; -20.0 m/s; 5.83 s; -29.0 m/s; -22.5 m)

3. A projectile is launched straight up at 60.0 m/s from a height of 80.0 m, at the edge of a sheer
cliff. The projectile falls, just missing the cliff and hitting the ground below. Find (a) the
maximum height of the projectile above the point of firing, (b) the time it takes to hit the
ground at the base of the cliff, and (c) its velocity at impact. (184 m; 13.5 s; -72.3 m/s)

4. A rock is released from rest at the tip of a 100-m-tall building. How long does the rock take
to fall to the ground, and what is its impact velocity? (4.52 s; -44.3 m/s)

5. A cannonball is shot straight up with an initial speed of 100 m/s. How high does it go? (510
m)

6. A stone is dripped from rest from the top of a tall building. After 3.00 s of free-fall, what is
the displacement of the stone and what is the velocity of the stone? (-44.1 m; -29.4 m/s)

7. A football game customarily begins with a coin toss to determine who kicks off. The referee
tosses the coin up with an initial speed of 6.00 m/s. In the absence of air resistance, how high
does the coin go above its point of release and what is the total time the coin is in the air
before returning to its release point? (1.84 m; 1.22s)

8. Standing on a bridge, you throw a stone straight upward. The stone hits a stream, 44.1 m
below the point at which you release it, 4.00 s later. (a) What is the velocity of the stone just
after it leases your hand? (b) What is the velocity of the stone just before it hits the water?
(8.60 m/s; -30.6 m/s)

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