1. An airplane accelerates down a runway at 3.20 m/s2 for 32.8 s until is finally lifts off the ground.

Determine the distance traveled before takeoff. Answer: d = 1720 m 2.A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly over a time of 5.21 seconds for a distance of 110 m. Determine the acceleration of the car. Answer: a = 8.10 m/s/s ~ 8.1 m/s2 3.A race car accelerates uniformly from 18.5 m/s to 46.1 m/s in 2.47 seconds. Determine the acceleration of the car and the distance traveled. Answers: a = 11.2 m/s/s and d = 79.8 m 4.A Rocket-powered sleds are used to test the human response to acceleration. If a rocket-powered sled is accelerated to a speed of 444 m/s in 1.8 seconds, then what is the acceleration and what is the distance which the sled travels? Answers: a = 247 m/s/s ~250 m/s2 and d = 400 m (bar 1st zero) 5.A bike accelerates uniformly from rest to a speed of 7.10 m/s over a distance of 35.4 m. Determine the acceleration of the bike. Answer: a = 0.712 m/s/s 6.An engineer is designing the runway for an airport. Of the planes which will use the airport, the lowest acceleration rate is likely to be 3 m/s2. The takeoff speed for this plane will be 65 m/s. Assuming this minimum acceleration, what is the minimum allowed length for the runway? Answer: d = 704 m ~700 m 7.A car traveling at 22.4 m/s skids to a stop in 2.55 s. Determine the skidding distance of the car (assume uniform acceleration). Answer: d = 28.6 m

Additional acceleration problems (with answers) 1.A body with an initial velocity of 8 m/s moves with a constant acceleration and travels 640 m in 40 seconds. Find its acceleration.(a = 0.4 m/s2) 2.A box slides down an inclined plane with a uniform acceleration and attains a velocity of 27 m/s in 3 seconds from rest. Find the final velocity and distance moved in 6 seconds (initially at rest).(Vf = 54 m/s, d = 162 m) 3. A car has a uniformly accelerated motion of 5 m/s2. Find the speed acquired and distance traveled in 4 seconds from rest.(Vf = 20 m/s, d = 40m) 4. Before leaving the ground an airplane traveling with constant acceleration makes a run on the runway of 1800 m in 12 seconds. Find a) acceleration b) speed at which it leaves the ground c) distance traveled during the first and twelfth seconds. (a) 25 m/s2 b) 300 m/s c) 12.5 m, 288 m)

5. A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly to a velocity of 80 ft/s after traveling 250 ft. Find its acceleration. (a=12.8ft/s2) 6. What velocity is attained by an object which is accelerated at 0.30 m/s2 for a distance of 50. m with a starting velocity of 0.0 m/s? (Vf = 6 m/s)

1.An ice cream truck is moving along at 20 m/s (its initial velocity.) It then speeds up (accelerates) for 5 seconds at 8 m/s2. What distance would the truck travel in this time interval? 2.What velocity would be attained by rolling ball which is accelerated at 0.30 m/s2 over a distance of 50. m. The starting velocity was 0.50 m/s and the force that caused the acceleration was applied for 5.0 seconds. *3. A car, initially traveling with a uniform velocity, accelerates at a rate of 1.0 m/s2 for a period of 12 seconds. If the car traveled 190 m during this 12 second period, what was the velocity of the car when it started to accelerate? 4. A ball rolls down an inclined plane with a constant acceleration of 2.5 m/s2: a) how fast is the ball traveling after 3 seconds? b) how far has the ball traveled in those 3 seconds? c) how far has the ball traveled by the time its velocity is 15 m/s? 5.If you travel one mile at a speed of 1000 mi/h and another mile at 1 mi/h, what is your average speed? 6.A pedestrian is running at his maximum speed of 6.0 m/s to catch a bus stopped by a traffic light. When he is 25 meters away from the bus the light changes and the bus accelerates uniformly at 1.0 m/s2. Find either; how far he has to run to catch the bus, or his frustration distance (closest approach). You may use graphs, charts, appropriate equations, tables, and/or computers.