5.7 Distance, Displacement, Speed And Velocity

Question 1

What is distance?

Answer 1

A scalar quantity that shows how far an object has moved

Question 2

What is displacement?

Answer 2

A vector quantity that measures the distance and direction from an object starting point to finishing point

Question 3

What is speed ?

Answer 3

How fast you’re going

Question 4

What is velocity ?

Answer 4

Speed in a given direction

Question 5

What happens if you walk 5 m north then 5m south

Answer 5

Distance - 10m displacement - 0m

Question 6

Because of speed and velocity what is possible for an objects ?

Answer 6

To travel at a constant speed with a changing velocity

Question 7

What is an example of an object having a constant speed but changing velocity?

Answer 7

Object moving in a circle

Question 8

Speed equation (seventeen)

Answer 8

S= vt
Distance = speed x time

Question 9

Typical speeds

Answer 9

Person walking -1.5
Running - 3
Cycling - 6 
Car - 25
Train - 30
Plane - 250

Question 10

What affects the speed of sound

Answer 10

The sound waves they’re travelling through

Question 11

What can affect wind speed

Answer 11

Temperature , atmospheric pressure