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Number list: Lesson 2: speed, velocity, and accleration
1. A roller coaster car rapidly picks up speed as it rolls down a slope. As it starts down the slope, its speed is 4
m/s. But 3 seconds later, at the bottom of the slope, its speed is 22 m/s. What is its acceleration?
2. A cyclist accelerates from 0 m/s to 8 m/s in 3 seconds. What is his acceleration? Is this acceleration higher
than that of a car which accelerates from 0 to 30 m/s in 8 seconds?
3. A parachute on a racing dragster opens and changes the speed of the car from 85 m/s to 45 m/s in a period
of 4.5 seconds. What is the acceleration of the dragster?
4. What is the average speed of a helicopter that flies 50 km in 20 minutes and then 30 km in 10 minutes?
5. How much time will it take for a bug to travel 5 meters across the floor if it is traveling at 1m/s?