EQUATION OF MOTION WORKSHEET
NAME:
1. A hamster in itʼs ball starts at rest and accelerates to 3m s-1 in 6 seconds.
a. What was the distance the hamster travelled?
b. What was the acceleration?
2. A train slows down from 40m s -1 to 10m s-1 in 60 seconds, how far does it travel in that
time?
3. A particle is accelerated uniformly from rest, so that after 10 seconds it has achieved a
speed of 15 m s-1 . Find its acceleration and the distance it has covered?
4. A car accelerates uniformly from rest and after 12 seconds has covered 40m.
What are its acceleration and its final velocity?
5. A car is being driven along a road at 25m s-1 when the driver suddenly notices that there is
a fallen tree blocking the road 65m ahead. The driver immediately applies the brakes giving
the car a constant deceleration of 5m s-2.
How far in front of the tree does the car come to rest?
6. A cyclist is traveling at 7m s -1 , then accelerates at 2.5m s -2 for 15 seconds.
a. How far did they travel during this time
b. What was the final speed after 15 seconds?
7. In travelling the 70cm along a rifle barrel, a bullet uniformly accelerates from rest to a
velocity of 210m s-1 . Find the acceleration involved and the time taken for which the bullet
is in the barrel.
8. A train travels along a straight piece of track between 2 stations A and B. The train starts
from rest at A and accelerates at 1.25m s-2 until it reaches a speed of 20m s-1 . It then
travels at this speed for a distance of 1560m and then decelerates at 2m s-2 to come to
rest at B.
Find
a. Distance from A to B
b. Total time taken for the journey