Motion in Two Dimensions

Practice Questions

AP Physics 1 › Motion in Two Dimensions

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Find the vector going from point A to point B, shown on the graph below.

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An object is shot from the ground at 75m/s at an angle of 45⁰ above the horizontal. How high does the object get before beginning its descent?

3

A batter hits a ball at an angle of to the horizontal. If the home run fence is away with a height of , and the ball is hit from an initial height of , what is the minimal initial velocity that will result in a home run?

4

A baseball hits a perfectly horizontal ball at a speed of from a height of . How far has the ball traveled before it hits the ground?

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An object is shot from the ground at 125m/s at an angle of 30o above the horizontal. How far away does the object land?

6

A 2kg box is at the top of a frictionless ramp at an angle of 60o. The top of the ramp is 30m above the ground. The box is sitting still while at the top of the ramp, and is then released.

What is the velocity of the box just before it hits the ground?

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A cannon ball is fired at an angle of 45 degrees from the horizontal. Which of the following describes the kind of motion experienced by the cannon ball in the y-axis and the x-axis respectively?

8

Jennifer is trying to catch a baseball. The ball is launched at from a machine, above the horizontal. How far away from the machine should she be?

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Suppose you're at the circus, and you see a clown launched out of a cannon. If you know that the clown's initial velocity when coming out of the cannon is and that the cannon was at an angle of with respect to the ground, what is the maximum height the clown reaches during his path across the circus?

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A quarterback throws a football a horizontal distance of to a wide receiver. The ball was airborne for . The ball had an initial speed of . The ball has a mass of .

Determine the speed of the football 4 seconds after the throw.

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