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A car travels for 10 s at a steady speed of 20 m/s long  a straight road. The traffic lights ahead change to red, and the car slows down with a constant deceleration, so that it halts after a further 8 s.

Use the graph to deduce the car's deceleration as it slows down.

Important Questions on Describing Motion

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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A car travels for 10 s at a steady speed of 20 m/s long  a straight road. The traffic lights ahead change to red, and the car slows down with a constant deceleration, so that it halts after a further 8 s.

Use the graph to deduce how far the car travels during the 18 s described.

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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A bus is travelling along a road. It travels a distance of 400 m in a time of 25 s. Write the equation used to calculate the average speed of the bus.
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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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A bus is travelling along a road. It travels a distance of 400 m in a time of 25 s. What is the unit of average speed?
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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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A bus is travelling along a road. It travels a distance of 400 m in a time of 25 s. The graph shows that the bus's speed is constant.

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Explain how you can tell that the bus has no acceleration.

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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A bus is travelling along a road. It travels a distance of 400 m in a time of 25 s. The graph shows that the bus's speed is constant.

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Copy the graph and shade the area that represents the distance travelled by the bus. Label this area 'distance travelled'.

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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Here are two graphs that represent the motion of two different objects.

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Copy the distance-time graph. Use your graph to explain how you would find the object's speed.

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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Here are two graphs that represent the motion of two different objects.

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The object is moving with constant speed. Explain how you can tell this from the first graph.

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Upper Secondary: IGCSE
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Here are two graphs that represent the motion of two different objects.

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Copy the speed-time graph. Use your graph to explain how you would find the object's acceleration.