SE ae A car is travelling along a straight road, It accelerates uniformly from rest to a speed of 15ms"! and maintains this speed for 10 minutes. It then decelerates uniformly to rest. Ifthe acceleration and deceleration are Sms” and 8 ms“ respectively, find the total journey time and the total distance travelled during the journey. 9 1 2 A skier pushes off at the top of a slope with an initial speed of 2ms™!. She gains speed at a constant rate throughout her run, After 10 s she is moving at 6ms"!. (Find an expression for her speed 1 seconds after she pushes off. \")__ Find an expression for the distance she has travelled at time t seconds, il The length of the ski slope is 400m. What is her speed at the bottom of the slope? ‘Towards the end of a half-marathon Sabina is 100m from the finish line and is running at a constant speed of Sms“, Daniel, who is 140m from the finish and is running at 4ms“!, decides to accelerate to try to beat Sabina. If he accelerates uniformly at 0.25ms~? does he succeed? Rupal throws a ball upwards at 8ms~! from a window which is 4m above ground level, (| Write down an equation for the height hm of the ball above the ground after fs (while it is still in the air). (il) Use your answer to part | to find the time the ball hits the ground. \ill_Hlow fast isthe ball moving just before it hits the ground? liv] In what way would you expect your answers to pars li] and li] to change if you were able to take air resistance into account? Nathan hits a tennis ball straight up into the air from a height of 1.25m above the ground. The ball hits the ground after 2.5 seconds, Find (i) the speed with which Nathan hits the ball lil] the greatest height above the ground reached by the ball (il) the speed with which the ball hits the ground liv) how high the ball bounces ifit loses 0.2 of its speed on hitting the ground, (v)_ Is your answer to part |i likely to be an over- or underestimate given that you have ignored air resistance? sajduiexa saying Ez2 THE CONSTANT ACCELER, ATION FORMULAE dropped from a building of height 39 @o| ¢ eae ee vertically aes oa the ood my is all, In modelling the motion o ‘the ball ang a fogs mn, che ball pece moves in a straight Line with q eg tORe jg iti that eac! magnitude 10ms~?. The stone is tae ay ih 1 and is H, metres above the grounqo™™ wie \ acceleration of 8 f s ig of the ball and stone before then inl Die positions. SS (ii) Write down an expression for h, at time z = {ii) Write down 2” expresion for the height, oF ey. ll and stone collide? ni 3 ok hen do the b: ee ww high above the ground do the ball and stone » «her boat, the two oars are both in the wy, \ Fe water for [Link] 55 cycle is then eae a e water the boat accelerates at a constant ata ay the water it decelerates at a constant Ss ed that takes place in each 35.» liv) Wl When Kim row a o then both out oF the oars are in th when they are not in Find the change in SP fi) acceleration. Find the change 1” speed that takes place in each 2, oe 2 eration. ‘ ate the change in the boat’s speed for each 5s cycye A race takes Kim 45s to complete. uf she starts from oe speed as she crosses the finishing line? a (v] Discuss whether this is a realistic speed for a rowing boat, ildis falls with accelerat d from a tall building and t ae A ball is droppe' -2 The distance between floors in the block ig = tan @|° ide 10ms The bal takes 0.5s to fall from the 14th to the 13th floor and 0.35 @ the 12th. What is the distance between fleags fa from the 13th floor to GQ| 9 Teceenmisballsare thrown vertically upwards from exactly the same gpoy at 1s intervals. Each tennis ball has initial speed 30ms~* and acceleration 10ms-2 downwards, How high above the ground do they collide? GB] 10 A car travelling with constant acceleration is timed to take 15 over 200 m and 10s over the next 200m. What is the speed of the car at the ah W mgt, 2mp24 tied of (ii) (iii) liv) 7 end of the observed motion? 11. A train is decelerating uniformly. It passes three posts spaced at intervals of 100m. It takes 8seconds between the first and second posts and 12 second between the second and third. Find the deceleration and the distance between the third post and the point where the train comes to rest. @} 12 A stone is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 35 ms, Find the distance it travels in the fourth second of its motion.50m A man sees a bus, accelerating uniformly from rest at a bus stop, away. He then runs at constant speed and just catches the bus in oe Determine the speed of the man and the acceleration of the bus. © man's speed is 3ms“', how close to the bus can he get? 14 In onder to determine the depth ofa wella stone is dropped into the well and the time taken forthe stone to drop is measured. Its found that the sound of the stone hitting the water arrives 5 seconds after the stone is topped. Ifthe speed of sound is taken as 340ms" find the depth of the well: The top of a cliffis 40 metses above the level ofthe sea.A man in a boat, close to the bottom of the cliff isin difficulty and fires a distress signal = vertically upwards from sea level. Find Eat Ui the speed of projection of the signa given that it reaches a height = ofS m above the top of the cliff . Ui) the length of time for which the signal is above the level of the top: 3 of the cif, : The man fires another distress signal vertically upwards from sea level. This signal is above the level of the top of the cliff for VI7s, \iil” Find the speed of projection of the second signal. Cambridge International AS & A Level Mathematics 9709 Paper 41 Q3 June 2013 16 Aand B are two points which are 10 m apart on the same horizontal plane. A particle P starts to move fiom rest at A, directly towards B, with constant acceleration 0.5 ms~, Another particle Q is moving directly towards A with constant speed 0.75 ms~!, and passes through B at the instant that P starts to move. At time Ts after this instant, particles P and Q collide, Find (i) the value of T, lil] the speed of P immediately before the collision, ‘Cambridge International AS & A Level Mathematics 9709 Paper 42 Q2 June 2014 117A cyclist starts from rest at point A and moves in a straight line with acceleration 0.5 ms“? for a distance of 36m, The cyclist then travels at constant speed for 25s before slowing down, with constant deceleration, to come to rest at point B, The distance AB is 210m. (i) Find the total time that the cyclist takes to travel from A to B. 24s after the cyclist leaves point A, a car starts from rest from point A, with constant acceleration 4ms"?, towards B. I is given that the car overtakes the cyclist while the cyclist is moving with constant speed. (i) Find the time that it takes from when the cyclist starts until the car overtakes her. : Cambridge International AS & A Level Mathematies 3 9709 Paper 41 Q7 November 2015jon described below involves mathem, ematicgy m, The sitwati heed to take these seeps to help you. IF Make a list ofthe assumptions you need tg ination co the point where you can apply yrik® to {ii) Make a list of the quantities involved, ‘athemag ji) Find out any information you require such as aon value forthe acceleration and decelerati Saf stop ion of g .PPin, estate. Pea jv)-Asign suitable eters for Your unknown quanti, a many things at once.) * Don, S and solve them. You mi {v)_ Set up your equations an Gate werk out several values and draw a suitable oon fing iui) Decide whether your results make Sense, preferably py, against some real data. a d adjusting, de (vi) Ifyou think your results need adjusting, decide whe Jnisal assumptions should be changed and, if so, in ther we at Way, Ym , vay ‘ Speed bumps ‘The residents of a housing estate are worried about the dan, being driven at high speed. They request that speed bumps Ey ES ins How far apart should the bumps be placed to ensure that drivers alle, not exceed a speed of 40kmh""? Some of the things to consider do ecciaumn senaible velocity over each bump and the time taken ty. P Peed and slow down. c KEY POINTS 1 The suvat formulae The formule for motion with constant acceleration are @ v=utat (n+) ASD Xt 1 @ s=ut+zar @ =u + 2as ea @ s=0t-5ar & the constant acceleration; s is the displacement from the ; Hi farting position at time ¢; v is the velocity at time r; u is the velocity when t= 0, Ifs=s, when r= 0, replace s in each formula with (s — §)-exercise 2A (Page 29) , Ui 22 (ii) 120 (iii) 0 (iv) -10 2 li) v= 0? + 2Qas tii (iii) s=ut+ jut? Ute, = 0 + 2as v=utat \v) (vi) s=utt+ 5a? (vii) v? =u? + as (viii) s= ot - ja 3 {i} 10ms", 100ms™ ii] 5m,500m (iii) 2s Speed and distance after 10s, both over-estimates. Time to fall is an underestimate. 2,08ms~, 150m. Assume ' 45ms-2 doy : “Bins? 35 7 | seg. “4 y= 16g ;; " til as lb) 4s (iti) postin (a) 16 ol 2 Ci 0 velo (as!) 16 q 1 16} # (ast 16 Al eC ®) @ [Page 32) 1 4 = 15.0, No @ [Page 34) x= 5? and 1,25 - x= 5t— 51? so 1,25 = 5t as before. @ [Page 34) Because the velocity is not constant. Exercise 2B (Page 35) 1 605s,9040m or 9.04km 2 i) v=2+04 12 (ii) s=2¢+ 0.20? 13 (iii) 18ms"t 3° No,heis 10m behind when 44 Sabina finishes. (i) h=4+8e-5? 5 i Lams! re lil) a li) mst li) 4 ron lil) 845m fii) 13ms-t liv) 541m (v) Underestimate 30m iL sort f 4, = 15t- 5¢? h, = 30 - 5t? (ii) (iii) (iv) 4= 2s 10m 5.4ms? -4.4ms! 1ms™! increase 1 (i) (ii) (iii) liv) Ww oms Too fast 3m 43.75m 22.7ms! rey) pms? 40¢m 2.5m Se ed 33ms"!, 5 ms; 9.5m from the bus. 109m & 2 + 4 constant acceleration. osAnswers ececcccese ecccscccsccs Peeevccccccccccccccccccce ; 5 as 18 (i) 30ms” i li) 2s tn (ii) 35ms™ Nr 16 [i) 5s (ii) 2.5ms7 6», ” 17 {i) 45s — (ii) 33s , : ie li) Investigation (Page 38) 7 fi Student’s own answers, Ww WwW Chapter 3 8 (i om } @ (Page 43) . cage The reaction between the person and the chair acts on the chair, The person’s weight acts on the W W 9 R | R person only, ! A ¥ ‘9 W Ww @ (Page 45) a 10 (i) li) ww Vertically up, Exercise 3A (Page 46) In these diagrams, W represents a weight, N a normal reaction with another surface, E Sriction force, R air resistance and P another force, N =