Chapter 2 Review IPC-Mcfatter

Which term explains the total distance traveled divided by the total time of travel?

• speed

• displacement

• total speed

• average speed

If a drag racer wins the final lap of his race by going an average speed of 198.37 mph in 4.537 s, what distance did he cover?

• 2,500 miles

• 15,401 miles

• 0.0121 miles

• 0.2500 miles

In the equation, s=dt, d stands for ______.

• displacement

• distance

• direct velocity

• downward momentum

Match the following

• velocity

• The speed you read on a speedometer

• displacement

• Distance and direction of an object's change in position from the starting point

• centripetal acceleration

• A person on a merry-go-round moves at a constant speed but at a changing ____

• momentum

• Acceleration toward the center of a curved or circular path

• instantaneous speed

• In the equation p=m x v, what does the p represent?

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V with a little f as as a subscript stands for ____.

• Initial velocity

• final velocity

• acceleration

• displacement

What is the path of a projectile?

• straight

• always vertical

• always horizontal

• curved

Which of the following is not an example of accelerated motion?

• an airplane taking off along a straight runway

• a ball being thrown straight up

• a bicyclist moving in a straight line at a constant speed

• a boulder falling off of a cliff in a straight path

Given a graph of velocity versus time, what does a horizontal line represent?

• The object's acceleration is positive

• The object is standing still

• The object is moving at a constant velocity

• The object's acceleration is negative

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When you graph the motion of an object using a distance-time graph, what goes on the horizontal axis? What goes on the vertical axis?

• distance, time

• speed, time

• time, distance

• time, speed

The velocity of an object must have both a/an ​ (a)   and a/an ​ (b)  

• speed
• direction
• velocity
• acceleration