Question 1:

A punter kicks a football at an angle of 45 to the ground. The football has an initial
velocity of 25 m/s.
a. How long is the football in the air?
b. How far does the football travel horizontally?
c. What is the maximum height of the football?

Question 2:

Use the figure below to answer problems 2 and 3.

The diagram shows the trajectory of a ball that is thrown horizontally from the top
of a building with a velocity of 19m/s. The balls vertical and horizontal velocity
vectors, along with the resultant vectors, are also indicated. If the ball takes 3.0 s
to reach the ground, how fast is it moving by the time it reaches the ground?
A 9.8 m/s
B 29 m/s
C 35 m/s
D 60 m/s

Question 3:
In the above question, how far from the building is the ball when it hits the ground?

A 57 m
B 11.4 m
C 32 m
D 59 m

Question 4:
In a penalty kick, a soccer player kicks the ball from ground level with an initial
velocity of 25.0 m/s, 20.0 above the horizontal. Assume that air resistance is
negligible. What is the maximum height, H, of the soccer ball?

A 0.510 m
B 3.18 m
C 3.65 m
D 8.55 m

Question 5:

What is the flight time of the soccer ball in the previous problem?
A 0.76 s
B 0.87 s
C 1.32 s
D 1.71 s


Question 6:

You accidentally toss your car keys horizontally at 50 m/s from a cliff that is 45 m
high. How far from the base of the cliff should you look for your keys?
A) 45 m
B) 150 m
C) 135 m
D) 225 m

Question 7:
In the photograph below, if the baseballs fell a vertical distance of 1.6 m from the
first to the last image, how long did it take them to fall?


A) 0.16 s
B) 0.32 s
C) 0.40 s
D) 0.57 s

Question 8:

A stone is thrown horizontally at 20 m/s from the top of a cliff 63 m high. How fast
is it moving the instant before it hits the ground?
A) 30 m/s
B) 34 m/s
C) 41 m/s
D) 38 m/s
Question 9:

A stone is thrown horizontally at 20.0 m/s from the top of a cliff 63 m high. How far
from the base of the cliff does the stone hit the ground?
A) 66m
B) 42m
C) 71m
D) 13m

Question 10:



The diagram shows the trajectory of a ball that is thrown horizontally from the top
of a building. The ball's vertical and horizontal velocity vectors, along with the
resultant vectors, are also indicated. If the ball takes 1.2 s to reach the ground,
what is the ball's vertical velocity when it reaches the ground?
A) 9.8 m/s down
B) 12 m/s down
C) 8.2 m/s down
D) 1.2 m/s down

Question 11:




The diagram shows the trajectory of a ball that is thrown horizontally from the top
of a building. If the ball's initial horizontal velocity is 2 m/s, and it takes 2 s to
reach the ground, approximately how far from the building is the ball when it hits
the ground?
A) 4 m
B) 0.9m
C) 25m
D) 21m

Question 12:

In soccer, a record was set for kicking a soccer ball at 43 m/s. If the soccer player
kicked the ball from ground level at an angle of 30.0 from the horizontal, what
height would the ball reach? Assume that air resistance is negligible.

A) 13m
B) 23m
C) 71m
D) 94m

Question 13:

In soccer, a speed record was set for kicking a soccer ball at 43 m/s. If the soccer
player kicked the ball from ground level at an angle of 30.0 from the horizontal,
what would be the flight time of the soccer ball? Assume that air resistance is
negligible.
A) 2.2 s
B) 3.0 s
C) 4.3 s
D) 5.9 s

Question 14:

A projectile fired up into the air at an angle has a range of 235 m and a flight time
of 47 s. You may want to draw a diagram to help you answer the following
questions. What is the horizontal component of the projectiles velocity?

A. 5m/s
B. 0.2m/s
C. 11045m/s
D. 1175m/s

Question 15:

An orange is dropped at the same time a bullet is shot from a gun. Which of the
following is true?
A. The acceleration due to gravity is greater for the orange because the orange
is heavier.
B. Gravity acts less on the bullet than on the orange because the bullet is
moving so fast.
C. The velocities will be the same.
D. The two objects will hit the ground at the same time.



Question 16:



In the figure above, if the initial velocity V
o
is 6m/s and the angle is 30
0
, then the X
and Y-component of the initial velocity are,

A. X-component:5.2m/s
Y-component: 3m/s

B. X-component:3m/s
Y-component: 5.2m/s

C. X-component:3.5m/s
Y-component:5.2m/s

D. X-component:5.2m/s
Y-component: 3.5m/s


Question 17:

a. How do the vertical velocities of the two trajectories
compare?
b. How does the acceleration of the two balls compare?









Question 18:


a. What can be said about the relationship between the horizontal components
of the balls velocity at the moment it leaves the ground and the moment it
returns to the ground?
b. What can be said about the acceleration (a
X
) in the horizontal direction?
c. What can be said about the acceleration (a
Y
) in the vertical direction?

Question 19:

A ball is projected upwards with a velocity of 60 m/s at an angle 60 to the vertical.
Find the velocity of the projectile after 1 second.

Question 20:

A stone is thrown horizontally at 20.0 m/s from the top of a cliff. If the stone hits
the ground at 71m from the base of the cliff, find the height of the cliff.

Question 21:

In soccer, a speed record was set for kicking a soccer ball at 43 m/s. If the soccer
player kicked the ball from ground level at an angle of 30.0 from the horizontal,
what is the vertical height at a horizontal distance of 100m?

Question 22:
A ball is projected upwards with a velocity of 60 m/s at an angle 60 to the vertical.
Find:
a. The range.
b. The maximum vertical height
c. The height when the ball is 311m from its initial point of projection.