International College Middle School Name: ________________________ Physics Test Duration: 50 min Motion 3rd CPP_______ (2%) for

neatness and clarity of handwriting I. (30%) Circle the letter that corresponds to the best answer: Acceleration is the: a. Rate of change in distance. b. Rate of change in position. c. Rate of change in velocity. d. Amount of time needed for an object to reach its destination. Motion is: a. an increase in the speed of an object. b. a decrease in the speed of an object. c. the stopping of an object relative to a frame of reference. d. a change in position relative to a frame of reference.

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When a car goes around a curve at 20 km/h, its __________ changes. a. speed b. average speed c. velocity d. instantaneous speed The distance traveled by an object per unit time is called: a. velocity. b. speed. c. distance. Which of the following is a vector quantity? a. mass b. speed c. distance

d. acceleration. d. acceleration

A bus picked up a passenger and traveled at an average speed of 10 m/s for 80 s. How far did the bus carry the passenger? a. 80 m b. 8m c. 800 m d. 0.12 m At the beginning of a track race, the instantaneous speed of all runners is _________ a. different. b. the average speed. c. 0 m/s. d. more information is needed.

In a speed - time graph, a straight line sloping downward means a. The speed is increasing. b. The object is moving in the opposite direction. c. Acceleration is positive. d. Acceleration is negative. If you travel 1.3 km east from your house at 8:00 am and at noon you travel 7.1 km west, your displacement is: a. 7.1 km , west b. 5.8 km, west c. 11.4 km, west d. 11.4 km, east

International College Middle School If an object has a constant velocity , then it a. has a negative acceleration b. has a positive acceleration c. has an acceleration of zero d. is not moving

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II. (16 %) A skater was moving east along a horizontal, marked track represented in the following figure. Use the data found in the figure to answer the questions below.

1. Calculate the average speed of the skater after 2 m.

2. Calculate the average speed of the skater in the last 3 seconds.

3. Explain why it is wrong to describe the motion of the skater as uniform motion.

4. Is the skaters acceleration positive or negative? Why?

5. Give the skaters displacement after 5 seconds.

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III. (24%) Below you will find a graph drawn for two joggers, Rania and Farid, as they were running along a horizontal path in a race that was 22 m long. Distance vs. Time

1. Is the motion of each jogger uniform? Explain.

2. Who ran faster in the race: Rania or Farid? Justify your answer.

3. Did both joggers start at the same point? Justify.

4. Determine the scale of the above graph. 5. Calculate the speed of Rania after 2.5 s of the race.

6. How far from the starting point was Farid after 3.5 s? 7. Who won the race? How far from each other were they at the end of the race? Explain.

International College Middle School IV. (23%) The following graph represents the speed of a car during its trip to school. 1. Specify the segments and time intervals that best match with the descriptions below. a. The car is moving at a constant speed.

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b. The car is speeding up.

c. The car is slowing down.

2. Calculate the acceleration of the car in segment BC.

3. Calculate the distance covered by the car in segment CD.

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(5%) When superman runs a 200 m race, he accelerates at 10 m/s2 for the entire distance. If he reaches the finish line with a speed of 22.4 m/s, how long did it take him to the finish the race? Show all your work.

Do your best!