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Physics -- Acceleration Word Problems
                           A = FV - OV / T

(Note:  The problems may look familiar, but the numbers are different!)


 
 

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When you have the answers, come back to the web page and input your answers using the guidelines
listed below.  This test accepts answers in the format of
A = 3 m/sec/sec     (or)     A=3m/sec/sec   
 --- in other words, your answers must either have a space after the missing variable, a space after the
equals mark, and a space after the number OR no spaces!)
 

  

 

 1. 

A skateboard going down a hill speeds up from 3 km/hr to 33 km/hr in 3 seconds. What is its ACCELERATION?
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 2. 

An automobile traveling at 43 km/hr speeds up to to 65 km/hr in 4 minutes.
What is its
ACCELERATION?
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 3. 

A rock is dropped from a building.  Its original velocity is 0 m/sec.  Its final velocity is 6.5 m/sec.
If it falls for 4 seconds, what is its
ACCELERATION?
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 4. 

A car accelerates from 0 km/hr to 51 km/hr. in 3 seconds.
What is its
ACCELERATION?
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 5. 

A space ship moving from the earth to the moon begins to slow down. 
It fires its retro rockets for 179 seconds, slowing it from 41,436 km/hr to
1,277 km/hr. What is its
ACCELERATION?
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 6. 

A bicycle rider stops for a traffic light. His original velocity is thus 0 km/hr. 
Over a 5.5 minute period he accelerates at 7 km/hr/min rate.
What is his
FINAL VELOCITY?
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 7. 

A miner drops his rock hammer down a mine shaft by mistake. 
If it takes the hammer 18.5 seconds to hit the bottom of the shaft,
what is the
FINAL VELOCITY of the hammer at impact? 
(Hint:  Remember that on earth acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/sec/sec.)
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 8. 

A car traveling south at a velocity of 56 km/hr slows down to to a velocity of
25 km/hr in 7 seconds.  What is the carĂ­s
ACCELERATION?
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 9. 

The space shuttle blasts off from Florida at an acceleration rate of 15 km/hr/sec
and reaches a final velocity of 17,118 km/hr. 
How much 
TIME did it take to reach this final velocity?
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 10. 

A rock is dropped from a building and when it finally hits the ground reaches
a final velocity of 95 meters/second. If it fell at the gravity constant rate of 9.8 m/sec/sec.
How much 
TIME  did it take to hit the ground?
(Note:  Remember that the rock starts at a rest, which means its OV is 0 m/sec.).
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