Average Speed and Velocity

What are you calculating when you divide the distance an object travelled by the amount of time it took for that object to travel that distance?

• velocity

• slope

• motion

• speed

total distance travelled divided by total time is...

• speed

• velocity

• acceleration

• average speed

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The SI unit for speed is_______.

• meters per second

• miles per hour

• miles per second

• meters per hour

What kind of quantity is Velocity

• Scalar quantity

• Vector quantity

What two things do you need to know to calculate velocity?

• direction and distance

• speed and distance

• speed and direction

• Distance and time

Total distance divided by total time is

• average speed

• constant speed

• instantaneous speed

• acceleration

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____________ describes how fast something is going, whereas, ________ describes how fast something is going and in a certain direction.

• speed, velocity

• rate, speed

• rate, velocity

• speed, acceleration

If a total distance of 750 m is covered in a time interval of 25 s, the average speed is ______________?

• 3,974 mph

• 3 mph

• 30 mph

• 30 m/s

Which of the following is a measure of velocity?

• 30 s

• 30 South

• 30 m/s

• 30 m/s, South

If a person walked at 2 m/s for 12 s he/she would travel a distance of _______.

• 24 m

• 6 m

• 4 m

• none of the answers