by BlastRoom
Calculate speed and acceleration and read motion off distance-time and speed-time graphs.
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A school bus drives 900 meters along a straight road in 60 seconds without changing pace. What is the bus's speed?

A runner covers 200 meters of track in 25 seconds at a steady pace. How fast was the runner moving?
A remote-control car crosses 45 meters of hallway in 15 seconds without speeding up or slowing down. What speed do these measurements give?
A ferry crosses 3,600 meters of harbor in 300 seconds, holding one steady pace. What is the ferry's speed?
Between two stations a train covers 4,500 meters in 90 seconds. What was the train's average speed over that stretch?
A swimmer finishes 150 meters of a pool lane in 120 seconds. What is the swimmer's speed?

An elevator rises 84 meters in 12 seconds at a constant pace. What is its speed?
A kicked soccer ball rolls 24 meters across level grass in 6 seconds. What speed does that work out to?

A hiker walks 8,000 meters of trail in 4,000 seconds. What was the hiker's average speed?
A delivery drone flies 250 meters straight to a rooftop in 20 seconds. What is the drone's speed?

A sprinter leaves the blocks at 0 m/s and reaches 9 m/s in 3 seconds. What is the sprinter's acceleration?

A car on a ramp goes from 8 m/s to 24 m/s in 4 seconds. What is its acceleration?
A lab cart rolling along a track slows from 12 m/s to 2 m/s in 5 seconds. What is the cart's acceleration?

A motorcycle speeds up from 5 m/s to 35 m/s in 6 seconds on a straight road. What acceleration do those numbers give?
An elevator starts from rest and reaches 3 m/s in 6 seconds. What is its acceleration?
On its takeoff roll an airplane goes from 40 m/s to 88 m/s in 12 seconds. What is the airplane's acceleration?
A cyclist pedals harder and goes from 3 m/s to 11 m/s in 4 seconds. What is the cyclist's acceleration?
Braking into a station, a subway train slows from 20 m/s to a stop in 8 seconds. What is the train's acceleration?

On a distance-time graph, a delivery van's line stays flat at 400 meters from 30 seconds to 50 seconds. What was the van doing then?
A distance-time graph for a scooter is a straight line from 0 meters at 0 seconds to 120 meters at 60 seconds. What is the scooter's speed?
A distance-time graph for a dog rises steeply from 0 to 10 seconds, then rises much less steeply from 10 to 30 seconds. When was the dog moving faster?
On a distance-time graph a hiker's line slopes downward from 300 meters at 40 seconds to 0 meters at 100 seconds. What is the hiker doing?
A distance-time graph for a cyclist rises from 0 to 200 meters between 0 and 25 seconds, then stays flat to 40 seconds. How far from the start is the cyclist at 40 seconds?
A distance-time graph for a bus is one straight line from 0 meters at 0 seconds to 500 meters at 50 seconds, with no bends. What does that straight line show?
A distance-time graph for a ball rolling down a ramp curves upward, getting steeper every second from 0 to 6 seconds. What does the curve show?

A distance-time graph for a walker reads 90 meters at 30 seconds, 90 meters at 45 seconds, and 210 meters at 75 seconds. How far did the walker travel between 45 and 75 seconds?
A train's distance-time graph is a straight line reading 600 meters at 20 seconds and 1,800 meters at 60 seconds. What is the train's speed over that interval?
Two distance-time lines start at the origin of the same graph. Line A reaches 90 meters at 30 seconds. Line B reaches 90 meters at 45 seconds. What does that show?
A speed-time graph for a bicycle is a straight line falling from 24 m/s at 0 seconds to 4 m/s at 10 seconds. By how much does its speed change each second?
A speed-time graph for a truck is a flat line at 15 m/s from 0 seconds to 30 seconds. What is the truck doing?
A speed-time graph for a skateboarder falls in a straight line from 18 m/s at 0 seconds to 0 m/s at 6 seconds. What is happening?
A speed-time graph for a scooter rises from 0 m/s at 0 seconds to 12 m/s at 8 seconds, then holds that value to 20 seconds. How fast is the scooter at 15 seconds?
A speed-time graph for a tram is a straight line from 2 m/s at 0 seconds to 18 m/s at 8 seconds. What is the tram's acceleration?
On a speed-time graph a car goes from 0 to 10 m/s between 0 and 10 seconds, then from 10 m/s to 30 m/s between 10 and 15 seconds. When did it gain speed faster?
A speed-time graph for a bus drops to 0 m/s at 25 seconds and stays at 0 m/s until 40 seconds. What was the bus doing between 25 and 40 seconds?
A student walks 40 meters east in 20 seconds, turns around, and walks 40 meters west in 20 seconds, ending where she began. Which statement describes the walk?

A jogger runs one full lap of a 400-meter circular track in 100 seconds and finishes at the starting line. What is her displacement for the lap?

A car drives around a curve while its speedometer stays at a steady 15 m/s. The car's velocity is changing.
A ferry sails 800 meters east in 200 seconds, then 800 meters west in 200 seconds back to its dock. What was its average velocity for the whole trip?
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