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UAM PROBLEM SET

1. A car travels up a hill at a constant speed of 37 km/h and returns down the hill at a constant speed
of 66 km/h. Calculate the average speed for the whole trip.
2. A car is accelerating at . Find its acceleration in .
3. We drive a distance of 1 km at 16 km/h. Then we drive an additional distance of 1 km at 32 km/h. What is
our average speed?
4. An airliner reaches its takeoff speed of 163 mph in 36.2 s. What is the magnitude of its average acceleration.
5. A car is initially traveling due north at 23 m/s.
(a) Find the velocity of the car after 4 s if its acceleration is due north.
(b) Find the velocity of the car after 4 s if its acceleration is instead due south.
6. How high can a human throw a ball if he can throw it with initial velocity 90 mph.
7. It takes you 9.5 minutes to walk with an average velocity of 1.2 m/s to the north from the bus stop to
museum entrance. What is your displacement?
8. A speedboat increases its speed uniformly from 20 m/s to 30 m/s in a distance of 200m. Find
(a) the magnitude of its acceleration and
(b) the time it takes the boat to travel the 200-m distance.
9. A ball is thrown vertically upward with a speed of 25.0m/s.
(a) How high does it rise?
(b) How long does it take to reach its highest point?
(c) How long does the ball take to hit the ground after it reaches its highest point?
(d) What is its velocity when it returns to the level from which it started?
10. The slowest animal ever discovered is a crab found in the Red Sea that travels an average speed of 5.7
km/year. How long will it take this crab to travel 1 meter?
11. An object is fired straight up at a speed of 9.8m/s. Compute its maximum altitude and the time it takes
to reach that height. Ignore air resistance.
12. A flowerpot falls from a windowsill 25.0 m above the sidewalk.
(a) how fast is the flowerpot moving when it strikes the ground?
(b) how much time does a passerby on the sidewalk below have to move out of the
way before the flowerpot hits the ground?
13. A tennis ball is thrown vertically upward with an initial velocity of +8.0 m/s.
(a) what will the ball\'s speed be when it returns to its starting point?
(b) how long will the ball take to reach its starting point?
14. If it takes a player 3 seconds to run from the batter's box to the first base at an average speed of 6.5
m/s, what is the distance she covers in that time?
15. A car starts from the rest and accelerates uniformly for t=5 seconds over a distance of 100m. Find the
acceleration of the car.
16. On the moon, an object is dropped from a height of 2 m. The acceleration of gravity on the moon
is . Determine the time it takes for the object to fall to the surface of the moon.
17. A coin is dropped from a 400 m high tower. What is the coin's velocity when it hits the ground? How
long does it take to get there?