<p>Name:______Date:______Per:______</p><p>SPEED/VELOCITY CALCULATIONS:</p><p>Use the formulas below to answer questions 1-6. CIRCLE YOUR ANSWERS AND BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE CORRECT UNITS!!</p><p>Equation Gives you…. If you know…. S=d/t Speed (or rate) Distance and time</p><p>D= s x t Distance Speed (rate) and time</p><p>T= d/ s Time Distance and speed (rate)</p><p>1. How are speed and velocity different?</p><p>2. If Luke throws a baseball 50 meters in 3 seconds, what is the average speed (velocity) of the baseball?</p><p>3. Goldie Goldfish, a speed swimmer, loves to race around the park’s pond, which is 0.5 miles around. If she can swim 20 laps around the track in 2 hours, what is her average speed ?</p><p>4. If it takes Emily 3 seconds to run from the batter’s box to first base at an average speed (velocity) of 6.5 meters per second, what is the distance she covers in that time? </p><p>5. Isaiah’s calculations of his pet tarantula show that the spider was able to crawl with a speed of 4 cm/s. How long would it take his tarantula to crawl 40 cm?</p><p>6. A train travels 225 kilometers in 2.5 hours. What is the train’s average speed? ACCELERATION CALCULATIONS: Use the formula below to help you to answer questions 7-10. CIRCLE YOUR ANSWERS AND BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE CORRECT UNITS!!</p><p>Acceleration = Ending Velocity – Starting Velocity Time</p><p>7. Toon Train is traveling at the speed of 10 m/s at the top of a hill. Five seconds later it reaches the bottom of the hill and is moving at 30 m/s. What is the rate of acceleration of Toon Train?</p><p>8. Monster Mike’s truck decelerates from 72 m/s to 0 m/s in 6 seconds. What is his rate of deceleration?</p><p>9. A plane starting from rest is accelerated to its takeoff velocity of 75 m/s during a 5 second period. What is the plane’s rate of acceleration?</p><p>10. Randy Roller Coaster 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 average acceleration ?</p>