1. What is the speed of a rocket that travels 9,000 meters in 12.12 seconds?
2. What is the speed of a jet plane that travels 528 meters in 4 seconds?
3. How long will your trip take if you travel 350 kilometers at an average speed of 80 kilometers per hour?
4. How far (in meters) will you travel in 3 minutes running at a rate of 6 miles per second?
5. A trip to Cape Canaveral, Florida takes 10 hours. The distance is 816 kilometers. Calculate the average speed.
6. How many seconds will it take for a satellite to travel 450 kilometers at a rate of 120 miles per second?
7. What is the speed of a walking person in miles per second if the person travels 1,000 miles in 20 minutes?
8. A ball rolls down a ramp for 15 seconds. If the initial velocity of the ball was 0.8 miles per second and the final velocity was 7 miles per second, what was the acceleration of the ball?
9. A meteroid changed velocity from 1.0 kilometers per second to 1.8 kilometers per second in 0.03 seconds. What is the acceleration of the meteroid?
10. A car going 50 miles per hour accelerates to pass a truck. Five seconds later the car is going 80 miles per hour. Calculate the acceleration of the car.
11. The space shuttle releases a space telescope into orbit around the earth. The telescope goes from being stationary to travelling at a speed of 1,700 miles per second in 25 seconds. What is the acceleration of the satellite?
12. A ball is rolled at a velocity of 12 miles per second. After 36 seconds, it comes to a stop. What is the acceleration of the ball?
13. A dragster in a race accelerated from stop to 60 miles per second by the time it reached the finish line. The dragster moved in a straight line and traveled from the starting line to the finish line in 8.0 seconds. What was the acceleration of the dragster?
