NCEA Level 1 Motion in One Dimension — practice questions
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Practice NCEA Level 1 Motion in One Dimension in the app →Kinematics is the branch of physics that studies motion in what way?What is a reference frame, as used to describe motion?Why is displacement classified as a vector while distance is classified as a scalar?A cyclist rides 3 km west and then turns around and rides 2 km east. Taking west as the positive direction, whA cyclist rides 3 km west and then turns around and rides 2 km east. What total distance does she ride?A marble rolls 5.2 m in 1.8 s. What is its average speed?During descent, the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter was measured at 187,000 feet above the surface, a height that haThe 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter disintegrated in the Martian atmosphere instead of settling into a safe orbit. WA student has a displacement of 304 m north in 180 s. Following significant figure rules for a division, how mLayla jogs with an average velocity of 2.4 m/s east. What is her displacement after 46 seconds?Phillip walks 428 m west from his house to school with an average velocity of 1.7 m/s west. How long does the A pitcher throws a baseball 18.4 m from the mound to home plate in 0.46 s. What is the ball's average speed?Cassie walks to her friend's house, 205 m away, with an average speed of 1.40 m/s. How long does the trip takeA trucker drives along a straight highway for 0.25 h and ends up with a displacement of 16 km south. What is tA bird flies east from one branch to another at 7.5 m/s for 2.4 s, pauses, then flies east at 6.8 m/s for 3.5 On an axis where moving from right to left counts as the positive direction, a student walks 32 m to the rightTiana jogs 1.5 km along a straight path, turns and jogs 2.4 km back the opposite way, then turns again and jogA position vs. time graph of a frog swimming across a pond has two straight-line sections, each lasting 1 secoA car's position vs. time graph is a straight line passing through the point (0.50 s, 525 m) and the point (6.The tangent line to a curved position vs. time graph at t = 25 s touches the curve's tangent line at the pointFrom 0 to 30 s, a car's velocity vs. time graph is a rectangle of height 20 m/s topped by a triangle of heightOn the same velocity vs. time graph, the velocity is 40 m/s at t = 5 s and 140 m/s at t = 25 s, rising in a stA biker rides west for 50 miles from his starting position, then turns and bikes back east 80 miles. What is hCyclist 1 travels 95 m in 27 s. Cyclist 2 travels 87 m in 22 s. Cyclist 3 travels 106 m in 26 s. Cyclist 4 traA car travels with an average speed of 23 m/s for 82 s. Which displacement could NOT have been the car's over A bicycle camper rides to her first campsite on day one, then rides at a different speed to a second campsite A car moves along a straight road at a constant speed without ever changing direction. How does the magnitude Alan walks 1.3 km east, then 0.68 km further east, then 1.1 km north, then 0.42 km further north, and finally Runner A starts jogging at t = 0 s and Runner B starts at t = 2.5 s. Both reach a point 64.0 m from the start A father walks in a straight line to a bus stop 75 m away at 2.2 m/s, while his daughter runs a varied path atIn the same bus-stop trip, the father walks straight to the stop in 34 s while his daughter runs a varied pathGalileo's ship thought experiment imagines a windowless ship moving at constant speed on a calm sea. What did What does a car's odometer actually record over a trip?Passenger A sits inside a moving train and throws a ball vertically upward. Passenger B, seated beside A, and Rhianna walks with average velocity v_avg for half of the time that Logan walks, starting from the same point Can one-dimensional motion ever have zero distance travelled but a nonzero displacement, or zero displacement A fly buzzes four and a half times around Kit Yan's head along a circular path and ends up on the opposite sidRob drives to the nearest hospital with an average speed of v m/s in t seconds. If he drives home along the saWhat is the slope of a straight-line graph of position versus time?What physical quantity does the area under a velocity versus time graph represent?