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Combined Science - Physics - Key Stage 4 - Forces: Distance-Time Graphs

This document provides information about distance-time graphs and calculating speed from such graphs. It includes examples of calculating speed from graphs where the object's motion includes constant speed, stationary periods, and acceleration. Students are asked to analyze sample graphs to identify different motion patterns and time periods, and to calculate speeds. The document concludes with practice problems involving constructing a distance-time graph and calculating speeds from a word problem description of an object's motion over time and distance.

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Combined Science - Physics - Key Stage 4 - Forces: Distance-Time Graphs

This document provides information about distance-time graphs and calculating speed from such graphs. It includes examples of calculating speed from graphs where the object's motion includes constant speed, stationary periods, and acceleration. Students are asked to analyze sample graphs to identify different motion patterns and time periods, and to calculate speeds. The document concludes with practice problems involving constructing a distance-time graph and calculating speeds from a word problem description of an object's motion over time and distance.

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19/1/2021

Combined Science - Physics - Key Stage 4 - Forces

Distance-Time Graphs

Mr Saville
Warm Up Task
1. What type of quantity is speed? (scalar or vector?) scalar
a
f

2. Can you recall the average speeds (in m/s) for a person walking and jogging?
1.5 m/s 3 m/s

3. Define speed. How fast an object moves (rates at which an obect covers a distance)

4. How do you calculate the speed of an object? V = s / t (speed = distance/time)

5. What is the average speed of sound? 330 m/s

2
1) Identify what each
area represents on
the graph:
A: constant speed

Distance (m)
B: stationay
C: accelerating
C
2) How many times
did the object B
remain stationary?
twice
A
3) How far did the
object travel?
30 m

4) How long did the


journey take?
15 senconds

3
Calculate the speed of the 3 80 A
represented in the graph.

A:

Distance (m)
80 / 4 = 20 m/s

B
40
B: 40 / 8 = 5 m/s

C: 20 / 8 = 2.5 m/s
0
0 4 8
Time (s)

4
Independent Practice
A man left his house this morning and
travelled 1000 metres in 50 seconds
before he stopped at the traffic lights for
100 seconds. He then travelled 4,000
meters in 200 seconds. He then waited
for 100 seconds in traffic. He then
travelled the remaining 2000 metres in
100 seconds.

He travelled a total distance of 7000 m,


in a total time of 550 seconds

Construct the graph and calculate his


speed when he travelled 4000 m.

4000 / 200 = 20 m/s


5
HT Only - Independent Practice

Calculate the approximate


speed of the object once it
has travelled 20 m.

Distance (m)
35 / (17.5 - 11) = 5.38 m/s

Time (s)

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