Speed and Velocity Answers

What does the x represent on a motion map?

The diagram shows a motion map for a train.

When compared to others, how is a greater velocity represented on a motion map?

Which is an example of speed?

Which three characteristics of an object are represented by a motion map?

Rosa studies the position-time graph of two race cars.Rosa concludes that truck X has a greater velocity than truck Y, and that truck Y had a head start. She also concluded that the graph shows both trucks moving at a constant velocity and that neither truck changes direction.

Alana is skateboarding at 19 km/h and throws a tennis ball at 11 km/h to her friend Oliver who is behind her leaning against a wall. What is the speed of the tennis ball if someone was watching the exchange on the sidewalk?

Ingrid is participating in a relay race. While jogging at 9 km/h, she tosses a relay stick at 16 km/h to her teammate, who is standing still.