Addu High School DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE (a) Use the distance-time graph to determine the speed of the object at

Hithadhoo/ Addu PHYSICS a time of 4.0 s.

(b) Calculate the acceleration.
Topic: Graph of motion Worksheet 4
3. The speeds of cars travelling through road works on major roads
1. The graph below shows motion of an object for 4.0s. are often monitored by average speed check’ cameras. This is
Topic: Superposition of waves Worksheet 2 done by timing a car between two cameras a large distance apart.

a) Calculate the acceleration of the object.

b) How long it moves at a constant velocity and what is this velocity.
c) Calculate the distance travelled by the object.
d) Calculate its average velocity.
2. The graph shows how displacement varies with time for an object
which starts from rest with constant acceleration.

The graph shows how the velocity of a car varies with time as it passes
between two average speed check cameras. The car passes the
cameras at time, t = 0 s and t = 50 s.

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 4. The photograph shows a sequence of images of a bouncing tennis
ball.

A student plots the following graph and claims that it shows the vertical
motion of the ball in the photograph.

A constant driving force is applied to the car for the first 6 s. At time t = 16
s the driver realizes the car is travelling too fast for the 22 m s –1 speed
limit (50 miles per hour) and applies the brakes until time t = 18 s.

(a) Calculate the acceleration at time, t = 3 s.

(b) Describe and explain the shape of the line in the first 6 s.

(c) Describe the resultant force on the car between times, t = 6 s and t (a) Without carrying out any calculations describe how the following
= 16 s. can be found from the graph (2)

(d) Show that the average speed of the car does not exceed the (i) the vertical distance travelled by the ball between 0.5 s and 1.0
average speed limit of 22 m s –1. s
(ii) the acceleration at Y.

(b) The graph contains several errors in its representation of the

motion of the ball Explain two of these errors.
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