Question

In a 100m race an athlete took 9.8 seconds:

a) Draw a distance-time graph to represent this information
b) determine the average velocity
c) distance traveled in 3 seconds
d) the time taken to cover 80m

Answer 1

Explanation:

b) average velocity : ∆x/∆t = 100/9.8 ≈ 10.204 m/s

c) ∆x = v.∆t = 10.204 × 3 = 30.612 m

d) ∆t = ∆x/v = 80/10.204 = 7.84 s