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Measurement of Time and Motion

Checkpoint: time, pendulums and speed

Five quick questions. Answer, read the reason, and retry as often as you like.

A pendulum takes 30 s for 10 oscillations. What is its time period?

A cyclist covers 450 m in 90 s. What is the speed?

A speed is 72 km/h. What is it in m/s?

In each of three 5 s periods, a car covers 20 m. What kind of motion is this?

A bus covers 100 km in 2 h. Then it covers 80 km in 2 h. What is its average speed?

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  1. 0 Start here
  2. 1 Something that repeats
  3. 2 Units of time
  4. 3 A swing that keeps time
  5. 4 How fast
  6. 5 Units of speed
  7. 6 Steady or not
  8. 7 Average speed of a journey
  9. 8 Checkpoint: time, pendulums and speed
  10. 9 Clocks before electricity
  11. 10 Marks on a water clock
  12. 11 How exact is a clock?
  13. 12 The smallest tick
  14. 13 Speed from a timetable
  15. 14 The big picture
  16. 15 Track quiz

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