GCSE Physics – Displacement

Last updated: 10/12/2020
GCSE Science CIE – Combined science extended Motion GCSE Physics – Displacement

Learning Objectives

-I can describe distance as a scalar quantity
-I can describe displacement as a vector quantity
-I can describe speed as a scalar quantity
-I can describe velocity as a vector quantity
-I can use, rearrange and can recall the units needed for s = vt

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  1. What is distance?

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  2. What type of quantity is distance?

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  3. What does distance not involve?

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  4. What is displacement?

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  5. What type of quantity is displacement?

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  6. What two measurements does displacement involve?

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  7. What is speed?

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  8. What type of quantity is speed?

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  9. What do we call it when speed is changing?

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  10. What factors can affect how quickly someone can walk?

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  11. At roughly what speed do we walk?

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  12. At roughly what speed do we run?

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  13. At roughly what speed do we cycle?

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  14. What is the typical value for the speed of sound in air?

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  15. What is velocity?

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  16. What type of quantity is velocity?

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  17. What is an example of constant speed but changing velocity?

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  18. What else has varying speed?

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  19. Which measurement can be negative?

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  20. What is s in the s = vt formula?

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  21. What is v in the s = vt formula?

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  22. What is the speed of a person that covers 240 m in 48 s?

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  23. What is the speed of a person that covers 500 m in 200 s?

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  24. What is the speed of a person that covers 1 m in 0.4 s?

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  25. What distance is travelled in 10 s by a body travelling at 2.4 m/s?

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