Position and Velocity

To determine if an object has changed position, you need to know its position relative to another object. _______________

• True

• False

Velocity is speed with direction

• True

• False

300 km/hr North is an example of

• Velocity

• Speed

• Direction

• Reference point

If you leave home and travel a million miles around the world and stop back home, what is your displacement?

• One million miles

• 0

• two million miles

• none of the above

You are in a car going 20 km/h and another car passes you going in the opposite direction at 20 km/h. Do both cars have the same velocity?

• Yes, because they are both going 20 km/h

• No, because they are going in different directions

You need Distance, a reference point, and a reference direction to determine the position of an object

• True

• False

20 km/hr is an example of

• direction

• velocity

• speed

• distance

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

You can find speed and velocity by

• Distance / Time

• Time/ Distance

• Time/Time

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Velocity is speed with __________________________.

• a unicycle helmet

• direction

• fight

If a train went past you while standing on a platform, your frame of reference might be:

• the background

• a car moving in the opposite direction

• a man on a pogo stick traveling at the same speed as the train in the same direction