HARD
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

A student walks  8.0 km southeast and then 12 km  due west.

Draw a vector diagram showing the route. Use your diagram to find the total displacement.

Calculate the resultant displacement. Show your working clearly.

Important Questions on Kinematics: Describing Motion

HARD
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

A swimmer can swim at 2.0 ms-1in still water .she aims to swim directly across a river that is flowing at 0.8 ms-1. Calculate his resultant velocity. ( You must give both magnitude and direction.)

 

MEDIUM
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

A stone is thrown from a cliff and strike the surface of the sea with a vertical velocity of 18 ms-1 and a horizontal velocity v. The resultant of these two velocities is 25 ms-1. Draw a vector diagram showing the two velocities and the resultant.

HARD
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

A stone is thrown from a cliff and strike the surface of the sea with a vertical velocity of 18 ms-1 and a horizontal velocity v. The resultant of these two velocities is 25 ms-1. Draw a vector diagram showing the two velocities and the resultant. Use your diagram to find the value of v.

HARD
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

A stone is thrown from a cliff and strike the surface of the sea with a vertical velocity of 18 ms-1 and a horizontal velocity v. The resultant of these two velocities is 25 ms-1. Draw a vector diagram showing the two velocities and the resultant. Use your diagram to find the angle between the stone and the vertical as it strikes the water.

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
A velocity of 5.0 ms-1 is due north.  Subtract from it another velocity that is 5.0 ms-1 due south.
MEDIUM
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
A velocity of 5.0 ms-1 is due north.  Substrata from it another velocity that is 5.0 ms-1 due north.
HARD
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
A velocity of 5.0 ms-1 is due north.  Subtract from it another velocity that is 5.0 ms-1 due west.
MEDIUM
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
A velocity of 5.0 ms-1 is due north.  Subtract from it another velocity that is 5.0 ms-1 due west.  Subtract from it another velocity that is 5.0 ms-1 due east.