(21) Percy starts from rest at a station S and moves with constant acceleration.

He
passes a signal box B 14 seconds later with a speed of 84kmh -1. Modelling the train
as a particle, find the acceleration of the train in ms-2 and the distance in metres
between the station and the signal box.
(22) ET is travelling up a hill on his BMX. He experiences a constant retardation of
magnitude 3ms-2. Given that his speed at the bottom of the hill was 15ms-1
determine how far he will travel before he comes to rest
(23) A car moves with constant acceleration along a straight horizontal road. The
car passes the point A with speed 7ms-1 and 5 seconds later it passes the point B,
where

AB

53m.

a) Find the acceleration of the car.

When the car passes the point C, it has a speed of 26ms-1.
b) Find the distance AC.
(24) A car moves from rest at a point O and moves in a straight line. The car moves
with constant acceleration 5ms-2 until it passes the point A when it is moving with
speed 14 ms-1. It then moves with constant acceleration 2 ms -2 for 8 seconds until it
reaches the point B.
a) Find the speed of the car at B.
b) Find the distance OB.
(25) An aircraft moves along a straight horizontal runway with constant
acceleration. It passes a point A on the runway with speed 15ms -1. It then passes
the point B on the runway with speed 39ms -1. The
Distance

AB

is

a) Find the acceleration of the aircraft.

b) Find the time taken by the aircraft in moving from A to B.
c) Find the speed of the aircraft when it passes the midpoint of A and B

190m.

(26) A racing car moves along a straight horizontal road with constant acceleration.
It passes the point O with speed 11ms-1. It passes the point A, 4 seconds later with
speed 55ms-1.
a) Find the acceleration of the car.
b) Find the distance OA.

c) Find the speed of the car as it passes the

midpoint of OA

39) A car accelerates from rest to 10 ms-1 in a time of 5s, travels at a

constant speed for 12s, then brakes suddenly and comes to rest in a further
2s.
a) Draw the cars speed-time graph.
b) State any assumptions made in drawing the graph.
c) What was the cars speed 3s after the start?
d) Draw an acceleration-time graph for the car.
e) Explain why, in practice, graphs of the type you have drawn would not be
obtained.
f) If the car had been full of passengers, and the driver had operated the
controls in exactly the same way, redraw the graphs of a) and d) to show
how the motion would be modified
40) A stone thrown vertically upwards takes 4.0 s to return to the ground.
(a) What is its displacement when it has returned to its starting position
(b) What was the stones initial velocity
(c) What was the stones velocity at the highest point?
(d) What was the greatest height reached by the stone?
(e) What was the stones average velocity during its motion?
41). A helicopter is rising vertically at 10 ms-1 when a wheel drops off and
reaches the ground 8.0 s later. At what height was the helicopter flying when
the wheel fell off?
42). A helicopter that is ascending at a steady speed of 10ms-1 releases a
parcel that then takes 5.0 s to reach the
ground.
(a) Find the speed of the parcel when it hits the ground.
(b) What was the height of the helicopter when the parcel was released?
(c) What was the maximum height of the parcel above the ground?

(d) Where is the helicopter when the parcel hits the ground?
43). Bob Slade pushes himself off at a speed of 2.0ms-1 from the top of a
downhill run on his home-made ski jump. This straight run of 40m increases
Bobs speed to 22.0ms-2.
(a) What is his acceleration on this downhill run?
(b) What is his speed 30m from the start?
(c) How much time does Bob take to complete his downhill run?
44). A ball bearing is dropped vertically and it enters a cardboard tube that is
40cm long. The ball is out of view for 0.20 s.
(a) What is the speed of the ball bearing as it enters the tube?
(b) What is its speed as it emerges from the tube?
45). A ball is kicked vertically upwards with a velocity of +20ms-1 from the
edge of a
cliff. It lands with a velocity of -50ms-1 at the bottom of the cliff.
(a) What is the velocity of the ball at its highest point?
(b) What is the total time the ball is in the air?
(c) Draw a velocity-time graph for the total motion.
(d) How high above the cliff did the ball reach