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Answers should be mostly in order with your book and notes. You are allowed to write on this paper but you may write on a different paper if you need more space.

Chapter 11 Study Guide

  1. What do you need to accurately describe motion?
  2. What is relative motion?
  3. What is distance?
  4. What is the SI unit for distance?
  5. What is displacement?
  6. How are distance and displacement different?
  7. You walk 12 meters left. Then you walk 5 more meters left. What is your total distance walked?
  8. See number 7. What is your total displacement?
  9. You walk 20 meters west. Then you turn around and walk 15 meters east. What is your total distance walked?
  10. See number 9. What is your total displacement?
  11. You walk 5 meters north. Then you walk 2 meters east. Then you walk 1 meter north. What is your total distance walked?
  12. See number 11. What is your total displacement? You need graph paper for this one!
  13. What is speed?
  14. What is the SI unit for speed?
  15. What is the formula for speed? Know this for the test!!
  16. How are average and instantaneous speeds different?
  17. If a person runs 50 meters in 15 seconds, what was their speed?
  18. What is the slope of a distance-time graph?
  19. What does a straight line on a distance-time graph mean? A perfect diagonal? A curved line?
  20. What is velocity?
  21. What is acceleration?
  22. What is the SI unit for acceleration?
  23. What is the acceleration of a freefalling object on Earth?
  24. What is the formula for acceleration?
  25. If a car traveling 45 km/hr comes to a complete stop at a red light in 60 seconds, what was its deceleration? Remember to change seconds to hours by dividing by 60 twice before plugging into the formula!
  26. The cheetah can run a distance of 274 m in 8.65 s at its top speed. What is the cheetah’s top speed?
  27. What is the slope of a speed-time graph?
  28. What does a straight line on a speed-time graph mean? A perfect diagonal? A curved line?

Expect a lot of math on this test.