Conceptual Physics Velocity

Before Galileo, how did people typically describe the motion of objects?

Which of the following best describes how to calculate the speed of an object?

Select all legitimate units for describing speed from the following options:

If a cheetah covers 50 meters in 2 seconds, what is its speed in meters per second?

Which of the following are examples of speeds that can be measured using a speedometer?

Which of the following best describes instantaneous speed?

If a car travels 240 kilometers in 4 hours, what is its average speed?

What is the formula to calculate the total distance covered if you know the average speed and travel time?

If a cheetah runs at a constant speed of 25 m/s, how far will it travel in 10 seconds?

How can you calculate speed?

The speedometer of a car moving northward reads 60 km/h. It passes another car that is traveling southward that reads 60km/h. Do both cars have the same speed? Do they have the same velocity?

The clown walked 27 feet in 9 seconds. what was his velocity?

A unicyclist pedals 40 hours at 5 miles per hour without making any stops. How far does she get?

An old lady rolls down a hill at 3 meters/second. The hill is 36 meters long. How many seconds does it take the old lady to reach the bottom of the hill?

An old lady flew down the highway 600 miles in a side car. The journey in the side car took 10 hours. What was the velocity of the old woman in the side car?