Lesson: Reaction Time
In this lesson, we will learn how to describe the effects of a person's reaction time on the motion of objects that they interact with.
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Worksheet: 10 Questions • 3 Videos
The thinking distance and braking distance for a car at different initial speeds are shown by the lengths of the two-colored bars in the diagram. The longer a bar, the greater the initial speed the car stops from.
Which of the following quantities is shown by the length of the gray part of the bar?
Stopping distance
Thinking distance
Braking distance
The thinking distance and braking distance for a car at different initial speeds are shown in the graph. The thinking distance is in blue and the braking distance in orange.
What is the lowest speed, to the nearest kilometer per hour, where the braking distance is greater than the thinking distance?
What is the stopping distance for an initial speed of 50 km/h?
How much greater is the braking distance than the thinking distance when the initial speed is 90 km/h?
How much lower is the braking distance than the thinking distance when the initial speed is 40 km/h?
The velocity–time graph shows the change in the velocity of a car that suddenly brakes to come to a stop on a dry concrete surface.
Which of the other graphs shown, (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e), best matches the velocity-time graph for the same car stopping, driven by the same driver, but where the car travels on a wet concrete surface?
Reaction Time
Conservation of Momentum
Force as Rate of Momentum Change
Newton's First Law of Motion
Acceleration over a Distance
Forces that Resist Motion
Applying Newton's Third Law of Motion to Collisions
Deformation of Springs
Acceleration over Time