1. A rabbit hops 100 meters in 24 seconds.

a) What is its speed in m/s?

 

b) What is its speed in cm/s (1 m = 100 cm)

 

2. What is the difference between constant speed and average speed?

3. From the starting line, Sophie sprints 100 meters in 15 seconds. What is her average speed?

4. What is the speed (in km/s) of a sattelite orbiting earth if it travels 10 kilometers in 1.34 seconds?

5. What is the speed of the same sattelite in meters per second (1 km = 1000 m)?

6. What is the difference between speed and velocity?

7. You throw a baseball to the catcher, 13 meters in 2 seconds.

a) what is the speed of the baseball?

b) what is the velocity of the baseball away from you?

c) what is the velocity of the baseball toward you?

d) what is the velocity of the baseball sideways to you (toward first base)?

 

8. Mr. Myers is pretty slow. He ran the 100 m dash in 720 seconds.

a) what is his speed in m/s?

b) what is his speed in meters per minute?

9. What is the speed of light in m/s?