Homework for next Monday's class

Woo Hoo – it’s physics problems and questions! OH YEAH!!
Please complete these by next Monday, to be submitted for a homework grade. 

1.  Determine the average speed of your own trip to school: in miles per hour. Use GoogleMaps or something similar to get the distance, and recall the time from your last trip.  Your answer should be in either miles per hour or kilometers per hour.

2.  What was the meter standard originally based on?  What is it now based on?  Why was a change ever made?

3.  What is the meaning of instantaneous velocity?  How can we measure it?

4.  Give a simple way to remember how fast light is.

 5.  If you were to draw a graph of distance (y-axis) vs. time (x-axis) for an object moving at a constant speed, what would it resemble?  Draw or describe.  Now, if the object were accelerating (getting faster each second), what would the graph resemble?  Draw or describe.

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