Concept Quiz 1

You run from your house to a friend's house that is 3 km away. You then walk home. The distance you traveled is 6 km. What is your displacement? 

• 6  km
• 0 km

An object can be moving for 10 seconds and still have zero displacement.

• True
• False

The fastest trains are magnetically levitated above the rails to avoid friction (and are therefore called
MagLev trains...cool, huh?). The fastest trains travel about 250 km in a half an hour. What is their
average speed in km/hour?

• 250 km/hr
• 500 km/hr
• 125 km/hr

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A hummingbird averages a speed of about 45 km/hour (Cool facts: They visit up to 1000 flowers per day, and reach maximum speed, while diving, up to 160 km/hour!). Ruby-throated hummingbirds take a non-stop trip across Gulf of Mexico in which they fly for 18 hours straight! How far is the trip across the Gulf of Mexico at their average speed?

• 810 km
• 2.5 km
• 3.6 km
• 360 km

An object is NOT accelerating if it is moving

• in a circle
• at constant velocity 
• at increasing speed
• only as influenced by gravity

A car slows down from +32 m/s to +8 m/s in 4 s. The acceleration is 

• 6 m/s/s opposite the motion
• 2m/s/s in the direction of motion
• 8 m/s/s opposite the motion

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An airplane accelerates down a runway at 3.20 m/s/s
for 8 s until it finally lifts off the ground.
Determine the velocity at take-off.

• 0.4 m/s
• 25.6 m/s
• 2.5 m/s

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An airplane accelerates down a runway at 3.20 m/s/s for 8 s until it finally lifts off the ground.  The velocity of 25.6 m/s at liftoff is 

• instantaneous 
• average

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A cheetah travels 75 m in 3 s. What is her velocity over the interval?

• 225 m/s
• 25 m/s 
• 0.04 m/s

Which direction is the object traveling between 12 and 16 seconds?

• forward

• backward