Speed Displacement

Two people walk across a parking lot. Their paths are shown in the image. Who traveled with a larger displacement?

• Person A

• Person B

• They both had the same displacement.

Displacement is distance combined with

• direction

• speed

• velocity

• magnitude

What is happening at D?

• Stationary

• Accelerating

• Fast steady speed; moving away from the starting position

• Slower steady speed; moving away from the starting position

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What is speed?

• It is how far you go

• It is the distance traveled over a period of time

• It is how fast you accelerate

• It is the change in the postilion of a object

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What is velocity?

• the quickness of an object

• the location of an object

• acceleration

• speed in a specific direction

A measurement of how fast an object is moving

• Velocity

• Speed

• Vector

• Acceleration

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Reese can run 10 meters in 5 seconds. What is her speed?

• 5 meters/sec

• 2 meters/sec

• 5 miles/hour

• 2 miles/hour

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Which of the following is a unit of speed ?

• sec

• mi

• m/s

• min

What is this graph showing?

• Fast constant speed

• Slow constant speed

• Accelerating

• At rest

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What does this graph represent?

• Constant Speed

• Acceleration

• Not moving

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