1. Speed and Acceleration Word Problems
Be sure to show your work. You should have a formula triangle for each problem.

2. #1
If it takes 2 hours to travel 8200 meters, what is the average speed in meters/min?

3. #2
A car has an average speed of 32 miles per hour. How far can it travel in 7 hour and 15 minutes?

4. #3
How long does it take to travel 330 miles, if the average speed is 59 miles per hour?

5. #4
A football field is about 100 m long. If it takes a person 20 seconds to run its length, how fast (what speed) were they running?

6. #5
The pitcher’s mound in baseball is 85 meters from the plate. It takes 4 seconds for a pitch to reach the plate. How fast is the pitch?

7. If you drive at 100 km/hr for 6 hours, how far will you go?#6
If you drive at 100 km/hr for 6 hours, how far will you go?

8. #7
Every summer I drive to Michigan. It is 3900 km to get there. If I average 100 km/hr, how much time will I spend driving?

9. #8
The fastest train in the world moves at 500 km/hr. How far will it go in 3 hours?

10. #9
A bullet travels at 850 m/s. How long will it take a bullet to go 2 km. (Hint: you will need to remember metric conversions)

11. #10
It is 21,000 kilometers around the earth and the earth rotates once every 24 hours. How fast is the earth rotating?

12. #11
What is the speed of a rocket that travels 9000 meters in seconds?

13. What is the speed of a jet plane that travels 528 meters in 4 seconds?
#12
What is the speed of a jet plane that travels 528 meters in 4 seconds?

14. #13
The space shuttle Endeavour is launched to an altitude of 500,000 m above the surface of the Earth. The shuttle travels at an average speed of 700 m/s. How long will it take for Endeavor to reach its orbit?

15. #14
How long will your trip take (in hours) if you travel 350 km at an average speed of 80 km/hr?

16. #15
How many seconds will it take for a satellite to travel 450 km at a speed of 120 m/s?

17. #16
How far (in meters) will you travel in 3 minutes running at a speed of 6 m/s?

18. #17
What is the speed of a car that traveled a total of 75 km in 1.5 hours?

19. #18
What is the speed and velocity of a plane that traveled 3000 miles from New York to California in 5 hours?

20. #19
John took 45 minutes to bicycle to his grandmother’s house, a total of 4 km. What was his speed in kilometers per minute? What was his speed in kilometers per hour?

21. #20
It took 3.5 hours for a train to travel the distance between two cities at a speed of 120 km/hr. How many kilometers are there between the two cities?

22. #21
A car goes from 0 to 100 km/hr in 10 sec. What is its acceleration?

23. #22
A bus slams on its breaks and goes from 30 km/hr to 15 km/hr in 4 sec. What is the acceleration?

24. #25
A meteoroid changed velocity from 1.0 km/s to 1.8 km/s in .03 seconds. What is the acceleration of the meteoroid?

25. #26
The space shuttle releases a space telescope into orbit around the earth. The telescope goes from being stationary to traveling at a speed of 1700 m/s in 25 seconds. What is the acceleration of the satellite?

26. #27
A car traveling at 10 m/s starts to decrease steadily. It comes to a complete stop in 20 seconds. What is the acceleration?

27. #28 An airplane travels down a runway for 4.0
seconds with an acceleration of 9.0 m/s². What is the change in velocity during this time?

28. #29
Pete the penguin loves to sled down his favorite hill. If he hits a speed of 50 m/s after 5 seconds, what is his rate of acceleration?

29. #30
A car traveling at a speed of 25 m/s increases its speed to 30.0 m/s in 10.0 seconds. What is the acceleration?

30. #31
In 0.5 seconds, a projectile goes from 0 to 300 m/s. What is the acceleration of the projectile?