HARD
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

You walk  3.0 km  due north and then 4.0 km due east. Make a scale drawing of your walk, and use it to find your final displacement. Remember to give both the magnitude and the direction.

Check your answer by calculating your displacement.

Important Questions on Kinematics: Describing Motion

HARD
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

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.Remember to give the scale on your diagram and to give the direction as well as the magnitude of your answer.

HARD
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

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.

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.