Physics Worksheet - Kinematics

1. A truck travels 880km in 7 hours and 20 minutes. 5. A car accelerates from 40km/h to 80km/h in 5
What was the truck’s average velocity? seconds.
a. What is the acceleration of the car?

2. What is 50 km/h in b. How far does the car travel during this
a) m/s? time?

b) What is 50 km/h in cm/s?

3. A motorbike is travelling at 90km/h. How far does

it travel in 2.0 seconds? 6. A Mazda 3 accelerates from rest to 30m/s in 6 s.
How far does it travel during this time?

7. An electron is accelerated to 200m/s in a distance

4. A ball it thrown a distance of 50 meters. The sound of 3m. What was the acceleration of the electron?
of the ball hitting the ground is heard 4.5 seconds
later. How long did it take for the ball to hit the
ground? (Sound travels at 330 m/s)
8. A rock is dropped.
a. How far has it travelled in 2.5 s?

b. How fast is it moving?

c. What was the average velocity during that

time?

12. A rock is thrown vertically upwards at 18 m/s.

On its way down, the rock hits a bird that is 5.0m
above the point of from which the rock was
thrown. How many seconds was the rock in the
air before it hit the bird?

9. A rock is thrown 30m high. How long does it take

to be caught at the same level?

Answers:
1. 120km/h 2a. 13.9m/s 2b. 1390cm/s
3. 50m 4. 4.35s 5a. 2.22m/s2
10. How far has a car travelled in 5 seconds if it can 5b. 83.3m 6. 90m 7. 6670 m/s2
accelerate from rest at 3m/s2 8a. 30.6m 8b. -24m/s 8c. -12.3m/s
9. 4.95s 10. 37.5m 11. 5.83s
12. 3.37s

11. A rock is thrown up from the top of a cliff at 8m/s.

How long does it take before it hits the ground
below 120m down?