
In , a man ran on a treadmill facing east relative to the gym. Find:
(a) the displacement and
(b) the average velocity during this time interval.

Important Questions on Motion Along a Straight Line
Compute your average velocity in the following two cases
(a) You walk at a speed of and run at a speed of along a straight track.
(b) You walk for min at a speed of and then run for min at along a straight track.
(c) Graph versus for both the cases and indicate how the average velocity is found on the graph.


A car travels up a hill at a constant speed of and returns down the hill at a constant speed of . Calculate the average speed for the round trip.

The position of an object moving along an axis is given by , where is in and in .
Find the position of the object at the following values of ,
and .
What is the object’s displacement between and ?
What is its average velocity for the time interval from to ?
Graph versus for and indicate how the answer for can be found on the graph.


A pigeon flies at to and from between two cars moving towards each other on a straight road, starting from the first car when the car separation is . The first car has a speed of and the second one has a speed of . By the time the cars meet head-on, what are the
total distance and
net displacement is flown by the pigeon?

Panic escape. The figure shows a general situation in which a stream of people attempts to escape through an exit door that turns out to be locked. The people move towards the door at speed are each depth and are separated by . The arrangement in figure occurs at time . At what average rate does the layer of people at the door increase? At what time does the layer’s depth reach ? (The answers reveal how quickly such a situation becomes dangerous.)

