Name:_____________ Date:____________ Start Time:_______ Finish:______

G12 PHY CH 01 TEST 01

K/U___​/29 ​T/I___​/22 ​C___​/4​ A___​/5 Final Mark: _______

Knowledge/Understanding

1. A dog moves in straight line with a constant acceleration. It changes its velocity from 10 m/s to 20 m/s
while covering a distance 135 m . How long does it take the dog to complete this motion?​(2 marks)

2. A stone is thrown vertically upwards with an initial velocity of 14 m/s. Find the maximum height reached
and the time of ascent.​(2 marks)
3. A car moves at a velocity 2.24 km/h in first minute, at 3.60 km/h in the second minute and at
5.18 km/h in the third minute. Calculate the average velocity in these three minutes?​(2 marks)

4. A car has initial velocity of 72 km/h . It accelerates at 2 m/s2 . Calculate the final velocity and the
distance covered after 3 s? (2 marks)
5. A stone is dropped from a certain height which can reach the ground in 5 s. If the stone is stopped after
3 s of its fall and then allowed to fall again, then what is the time taken by the stone to reach the ground
for the remaining distance?​(2 marks)

Brian is going to his friend’s house. His displacement is 20 km [S 30° E]. Find the components of the
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displacement.​(2 marks)
7. Mary is going for shopping. Her displacement is 100 m[E 30° N ] . Then she walks 160 m[E].
Determine her total displacement using cosine and sine laws.
(2 marks)

8. John drove South 120km at 60km/h and then East 150km at 50km/h . Determine
a) The average speed for the whole journey.
b) The magnitude of the average velocity for the whole journey.​(2 marks)
 A race car driver experiences an average acceleration of 0.15 sm2 [N 25° E] starting at a velocity of
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45 m/s[S] . What is the velocity of the race car driver after 35 s ?​(2 marks)

10. A car is moving from rest and attained a velocity of 80 m/s . Calculate the acceleration of the car after
5s ?​(2 marks)
11. A car travelling at 22.4 ms skids to a stop in 2.55 s . Determine the skidding distance of the car. (Assume
uniform acceleration).​(2 marks)

12. A jet air plane moving at the speed of 500 km

h ejects its products of combustion at the speed of
15000 km
h relative to it. Find the speed of the latter with respect to an observer on the ground.​(2 marks)
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13. Jack went for a walk one day. He walked north 6 km at 6 h and then west 10 km at 5 h . Determine
a) The total distance of the entire trip
b) The total displacement of the entire trip
c) The average velocity of the entire trip​(3 marks)

14. The air speed of a small plane is 215 km/h. The wind is blowing at 57 km/h

from the west. Determine the velocity of the plane with respect to the ground if the pilot keeps the plane
aimed at a direction of [34° E of N ] ?​(2 marks)
Thinking/Inquiry

1 km
15. A car covers 3 km with speed 20 hr and 32 km with a speed of 60 km
h . What is its average speed?​(2
marks)

16. A cat steals a sleeping dog’s bone. The cat runs away from the dog with an acceleration of 2 m/s2 . A
dog wakes up and realizes his bone is gone 5 seconds afterward. The dog chases the cat at a uniform
velocity of 20 m/s . Find the time it takes for the dog to catch the cat.​(2 marks)
17. From the top of a tower 100 m in height, a ball is dropped and at the same time another ball is projected
vertically upwards from the ground with a velocity of 25 m/s. Find when and where the two balls will
meet.​(2 marks)

18. A bike starts from rest and accelerates uniformly for 10 s to a velocity of 20 m/s.
It then runs at a constant speed and is finally brought to rest in 40 m with a constant acceleration. Total
distance covered is 640 m. Find the value of acceleration and total time taken.​(2 marks)
19. A train is moving along a straight path with uniform acceleration. Its engine passes across a pole with a
velocity of 60 km/h and the end passes across same pole with a velocity of 80 km/h. With what velocity
the middle point of the train will pass across same pole?​(2 marks)

20. A ball is dropped on to the floor a height of 10 m. It rebounds to a height of 2.5 m. If the ball is in
contact with the floor for 0.01 s, what is the average acceleration during contact?​(2 marks)
21. Dr. Meloy is walking from his home to the bridge at 2.2 m/s[N 40° E] . He is called to an emergency in
the sick bay and accelerates at 1.15 sm2 [34° N of W ] to get there, what is his velocity when he arrives
12 s later?​(2 marks)
22. A daredevil tries to jump a canyon of width 10m . To do so, he drives his motor cycle upon an incline
sloped at an angle of 15 degrees. What minimum speed is necessary to clear the canyon? ​(2 marks)

23. If a person can jump a horizontal distance of 3m on Earth, how far could the person jump on the moon
where the acceleration due to gravity is one-sixth of that on Earth(1.7m/s)?​(2 marks)
24. A police van moving on a highway with a speed of 30 km
h fires a bullet at a thief’s car speeding away in
the same direction with a speed of 192 km m
h . If the muzzle speed of the bullet is 150 s , with what speed
does the bullet hit the thief’s car?
(2 marks)

m
25. A car enters an intersection at 20 s where it collides with a truck. The impact rotates the car 90° and
m
gives it a speed of 15 s. Determine the average acceleration of the car if it was in contact with the truck
for 1.25 s? (2 marks)
Application:

26. An athlete runs a distance of 1500 m in the following manner.

i) Starting from rest, he accelerates himself at 2m/s2 till he covers a distance of 900 m.
ii) He then returns the remaining distance of 600 m at the uniform speed developed. Calculate the time
taken by the athlete to cover the two parts of the distance covered.Also, find the time, when he is at the
center of the track.
(2 marks)

27. A rock is thrown with an initial vertical velocity component of 30m/s and an initial horizontal velocity
component of 40m/s
a) What will these velocity components be one second after rock reaches the top of its path?
b) Assuming the launch and landing heights are the same, how long will the rock be in the air?
c) Assuming the launch and landing heights are the same, how far will the rock land from where it
was thrown? ​(3 marks)
Communication:

28. A brick is thrown upward from the top of a building at an angle of 25 degrees above the horizontal and
with an initial speed of 15m/s . If the brick is in the air for 3 seconds , how high is the building? (draw
picture).​(2 marks)
29. A shot put is thrown. For the each of the indicated positions of the shot put along its trajectory, draw and
label the following vectors: the x-component of the velocity, the y-component of the velocity, and the
acceleration. Explain why you drew the vectors as you did.​(2 marks)