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Physics Problem Solutions and Answers

This document provides 10 physics problems with instructions for students to show their work and provide boxed answers. It specifies the file format for submissions and discourages identical work between students to avoid automatic scoring of zero. The problems cover topics like average speed, total distance, average velocity, acceleration, projectile motion, and uniformly changing motion. Students are instructed to copy the problem verbatim, show their work, and only box their final numerical answers.

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Physics Problem Solutions and Answers

This document provides 10 physics problems with instructions for students to show their work and provide boxed answers. It specifies the file format for submissions and discourages identical work between students to avoid automatic scoring of zero. The problems cover topics like average speed, total distance, average velocity, acceleration, projectile motion, and uniformly changing motion. Students are instructed to copy the problem verbatim, show their work, and only box their final numerical answers.

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Instructions: i. Copy the problem. Provide proper solution and BOX your final answer/s only.

Only boxed answers will be checked.


ii. Make sure your work is readable enough. Untidy sheets will not be accepted.
iii. Students having exactly the same solution and answers will be automatically zero.
iv. Upload your file in PDF format only.

1. A car’s odometer reads 22 687 km at the start of a trip and 22 791 km at the end. The trip took
4.0 hour. What was the car’s average speed in km/h and in m/s?

2. An auto travels at a rate of 25 km/h for 4.0 minutes, then at 50km/h for 8.0 minutes and finally
at 20 km/h for 2.0 minutes. Find (a) the total distance covered in km and (b) the average speed
for the complete trip in m/s.

3. A runner travels 1.5 laps around a circular track in a time of 50 s. The diameter of the track is 40
m and its circumference is 126 m. Find the (a) average speed of the runner and (b) the
magnitude of the runner’s average velocity.

4. A body with initial velocity 8.0 m/s moves along a straight line with a constant acceleration and
travels 640 m in 40 s. For the 40 s interval find (a) the average velocity, (b) the final velocity, and
(c) the acceleration.

5. A car is accelerating uniformly as it passes two checkpoints that are 30 m apart. The time taken
between checkpoints is 4.0 s, and the car speed at first checkpoint is 5.0 m/s. Find the car’s
acceleration and its speed at the second checkpoint.

6. A plane starts from rest and accelerates in a straight line along the ground before takeoff. It
moves 600 m in 12 s. Find (a) the acceleration, (b) speed at the end of 12 s, and (c) the distance
move during the twelfth second.

7. An object moving at 13 m/s slows uniformly at the rate of 2.0 m/s each second for a time of
6.0s. Determine (a) its final speed, (b) its average speed during the 6.0 s, and (c) the distance
moved in the 6.0 s.

8. Two balls are dropped to the ground from different heights. One is dropped 1.5 s after the
other, but they both strike the ground at the same time, 5.0 s after the first was dropped. (a)
What is the difference in the heights from which they were dropped? (b) From what height was
the first ball dropped?

9. A body was projected upward from the level ground at an angle of 50° with the horizontal has
an initial speed of 40 m/s. (a) How long it will take to hit the ground? (b) How far from the
starting point will it strike? (c) At what angle with the horizontal will it strike?

10. A body is projected downward at an angle of 30° with the horizontal from the top of a building
170 m high. Its initial speed is 40 m/s. (a) How long will it take to hit the ground? (b) How far
from the starting point will it strike? (c) at what angle with the horizontal will it strike?

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For flight time, use vertical motion equation h = ut sin(θ)t - 0.5gt^2 and solve for t when h = 0 from initial height using quadratic formula. For distance, use horizontal v = u cos(θ) and t to find range. Angle of impact is inverse tangent of vertical/horizontal components at impact. Specifically, 170 m height, initial velocity 40 m/s, 30° angle yield complex t, x, and θ values, requiring full kinematic equations and trig identities .

Final speed is v = u - at, with initial speed u = 13 m/s and deceleration a = 2.0 m/s^2 over t = 6.0 s, giving v = 13 m/s - 2.0 m/s^2(6.0 s) = 1 m/s. Average speed is (u + v) / 2 = (13 m/s + 1 m/s) / 2 = 7 m/s. Distance is found by s = ut + 0.5a(t^2) = 13 m/s*6.0 s + 0.5*(-2.0 m/s^2)(36 s^2) = 42 m .

Average speed is calculated by dividing total distance by time. Runner covers 1.5 laps of 126 m each, totaling 189 m. Dividing 189 m by 50 s gives an average speed of 3.78 m/s. Average velocity is total displacement over time. 1.5 laps result in ending half a lap from start, displacing 63 m (half circumference). Thus, average velocity magnitude is 63 m / 50 s = 1.26 m/s .

To calculate the average speed, subtract the initial odometer reading from the final odometer reading to find the total distance traveled. Then, divide this distance by the total time of travel. For the trip from 22,687 km to 22,791 km over 4.0 hours, the distance is 104 km. The average speed is 104 km / 4.0 h = 26 km/h. To convert this to meters per second, multiply by (1000 m/1 km) and divide by (3600 s/1 h), resulting in 7.22 m/s .

For average velocity, divide total distance by total time: 640 m / 40 s = 16 m/s. Use the formula v = u + at to find final velocity (v), where u = initial velocity and a = acceleration. With u = 8.0 m/s, rearrange to find a: (v-u)/t = a. For the final velocity, use v = u + at = 8.0 m/s + a(40 s). Solve these equations with known values to find final velocity and acceleration .

First, calculate the distance for each interval as the product of speed and time, with time converted to hours when necessary. For this problem: 25 km/h for 4 minutes is 1.67 km; 50 km/h for 8 minutes is 6.67 km; and 20 km/h for 2 minutes is 0.67 km. Total distance is 1.67 + 6.67 + 0.67 = 9.01 km. To find average speed, divide this total distance by the sum of time intervals converted to hours (0.23 h), resulting in approximately 39.17 km/h or 10.88 m/s .

Using free fall equation s = 0.5gt^2, for the first ball, t = 5.0 s gives s1 = 0.5(9.8 m/s^2)(25 s^2) = 122.5 m. For the second ball that falls for 3.5 s, s2 = 0.5(9.8 m/s^2)(12.25 s^2) = 59.925 m. Difference in heights is 122.5 m - 59.925 m = 62.575 m. Height of first drop is verified as 122.5 m .

Given initial speed u = 5.0 m/s, time t = 4.0 s, and distance d = 30 m, use the equation d = ut + 0.5at^2 to find acceleration a. Solve for a: 30 m = (5.0 m/s)(4.0 s) + 0.5a(16 s^2), which yields a = 2.5 m/s^2. Find speed at the second checkpoint using v = u + at = 5.0 m/s + (2.5 m/s^2)(4.0 s) = 15.0 m/s .

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