PRACTICE QUIZ 3.1

Answer the following.  Show all work and circle your answers.

1.   Name four quantities that are not fully specified unless a direction is given.

2.   How can the displacement of an object be zero even when its speed was not zero?

3.   A bicycle averages 5.0 meters per second while traveling for eleven minutes.  How far does it travel?

4.   A thief snatches a purse and runs due east at 5.0 meters per second.  A jogger, twelve meters to the west and running eastward, sees the robbery and pursues the thief.

a.     If the jogger runs at 8.0 m/s, how far does he have to run to catch the thief?

 

 

 

b.     How long does the pursuit last?