1. A car accelerates uniformly from rest to a velocity of 101 km/h east in 8.0 s. What is the magnitude of its acceleration?
2. A car slows down uniformly from 30.0 m/s to rest in 7.20 s. How far did it travel while decelerating?
3. An object uniformly accelerates at a rate of 1.00 m/s² east. While accelerating at this rate, the object is displaced 417.2 m east in
27.0 s. What is the final velocity of the object?
4. An object accelerates uniformly from rest at a rate of 1.9 m/s² west for 5.0 s. Find:
(a) the displacement
(b) the final velocity
(c) the distance traveled
(d) the final speed
5. A ball is thrown upwards with a speed of 24 m/s. Take the acceleration due to gravity to be 10 m/s².
(a) When is the velocity of the ball 12.0 m/s?
(b) When is the velocity of the ball −12.0 m/s?
(c) What is the displacement of the ball at those times?
(d) What is the velocity of the ball 1.50 s after launch?
(e) What is the maximum height reached by the ball?
6. A stone is thrown vertically upwards with an initial speed of 10.0 m/s from a cliff that is 50.0 m high.
(a) When does it reach the bottom of the cliff?
(b) What speed does it have just before hitting the ground?
(c) What is the total distance traveled by the stone? (Take g = 10 m/s².)
7. A rock is thrown vertically down from the roof of a 25.0 m high building with a speed of 5.0 m/s.
(a) When does the rock hit the ground?
(b) With what speed does it hit the ground? (Take g = 10 m/s².)
8. A window is 1.50 m high. A stone falling from above passes the top of the window with a speed of 3.00 m/s. When will it pass
the bottom of the window? (Take g = 10 m/s².)
9. A ball is tossed with a velocity of 10 m/s vertically upward from the window located 20 m above the ground. Knowing that the
acceleration of the ball is constant and equal to 9.81 m/s² downward, determine:
(a) the velocity v and elevation y of the ball above the ground at any time t
(b) the highest elevation reached by the ball and the corresponding time
(c) the time when the ball will hit the ground and the corresponding velocity
10. A 3.0 kg ball is thrown vertically into the air with an initial velocity of 15 m/s. What is the maximum height of the ball?
11. An object starts from rest with an acceleration of 2.0 m/s² that lasts for 3.0 s. It then reduces its acceleration to 1.0 m/s² that lasts
for 5.0 additional seconds. What is the velocity at the end of the 5.0 s interval?
12. An object initially traveling at a velocity of 2.0 m/s west accelerates uniformly at a rate of 1.3 m/s² west. During this time of
acceleration, the displacement of the object is 15 m. Find:
(a) the final velocity
(b) the final speed
13. A bungee cord is 11.0 m long. What will be the velocity of a bungee jumper just as the cord begins to stretch?
