Acceleration practice problems: Show your work



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Acceleration practice problems: Show your work!!! remember average acceleration = (vf-vi)/tf-ti)

1) If Zeus goes from 0m/s to 8 m/s in 1 sec. What is his acceleration?

2) Hermes ran 0m/s to 10m/s in 1 sec. What is his acceleration?

3) Shanika runs 0m/s to 8m/s in 2 sec. What is her acceleration?

4) Marsheila’s new Mercedes goes from 0m/s to 30 m/s in 6 sec. What is its acceleration?

5) Brittany’s new Cadillac goes from 0m/s to 32 m/s in 8 sec. What is its acceleration?

6) Trevor’s new Lexus goes from 0m/s to 42m/s in 6 sec. What is its acceleration?

7) Mr Smith’s new BMW goes from 0m/s to 54m/s in 8 sec. What is its acceleration?

8) Which car (of problems 4-7) has the fastest acceleration?

9) Akyira’s jet accelerates from a stop to 76 m/s in 10 sec. What is its acceleration?

10) Dominick’s F-16 fighter jet goes from 0 to 152 m/s in 8 sec. What is its acceleration?

11) Calculate the acceleration for Antonio’s turtle that accelerates from 0m/s to 0.01m/s in 0.1 sec.

12) Calculate the acceleration for Jarvier’s racehorse that accelerates from 0m/s to 14m/s in 1 sec.

13) Kimo’s new Porche goes from 30m/s to 42m/s in 6 sec. What is its acceleration?

14) Cynthia’s new BMW goes from 32m/s to 46m/s in 8 sec. What is its acceleration?

15) Shaqueta’s new Lexus goes from 42m/s to 57m/s in 6 sec. What is its acceleration in cm per second?

16) Kevin’s Rolls Royce goes from 54m/s to 72m/s in 6 sec. What is the acceleration?

17) From questions 14-17, who has the fastest acceleration?

18) Calculate the acceleration (in m/sec2) of a missile that goes from 0 km/s to 8.8 km/s in 2 sec. How does the compare to the acceleration of gravity? (about 10 m/s2)

19) Mr W’s 737 jet accelerates from 76 m/s to 222 m/s in 120 sec. What is its acceleration?

20) Michael’s F-16 fighter jet goes from 152m/s to 426m/s in 30 sec. What is the acceleration in km/sec2?

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