HESI A2 test Physic- Projectile Motion

A baseball is hit in the horizontal direction at 25 m/s. How far does it travel after 4 seconds?

100 m

A rocket travels horizontally for 3 minutes at 160 m/s before it hits its target. How far is the target from the point where the rocket was launched?

28,800 m

A golf ball is struck and leaves the ground at 24 m/s at a 60° angle above the horizontal. How far will it travel horizontally after 15 seconds?

180 m

A toy rocket is launched with an initial speed of 48 m/s at an angle of 50°. How far does the projectile travel horizontally after 42 seconds?

1290 m

A particle is projected at an angle of 56° above the horizontal with an initial velocity of 130 m/s. How far will it travel horizontally 4 minutes after being projected?

17,447 m

A body falls freely from rest. What is the distance it falls in 40 seconds?

7,840 m

A marble dropped from a bridge strikes the water below in 10 seconds. What is the height of the bridge?

490 m

A tennis ball is thrown vertically with a speed of 15 m/s. How high will the tennis ball be after 2 seconds?

10.4 m

An object dropped from a balloon reaches the ground in 80 seconds. At what height was the balloon at the moment the object was dropped?

31,360 m

A cannonball is projected downward at an angle 30° with the horizontal from the top of a cliff. Its initial speed is 56 m/s. What is the height of the cliff if the cannonball reaches the ground after 20 seconds? 

2520 m

A rock is dropped from the top of a cliff. What’s the velocity of the rock after 5 seconds?

49 m/s

A ball is thrown downward from the roof of a house at 50 m/s. What is the velocity of the ball after 4 seconds?

89.2 m/s

A rock falls off a cliff. It remains in the air for 6.2 seconds before it hits the ground. Calculate the speed of the rock the moment before it hits the ground.

60.76 m/s

An acorn falls from the top of an oak tree. After falling for 13 seconds, the acorn is caught by a squirrel. What is the velocity of the acorn just before it gets caught by the squirrel?

127.4 m/s

If a firework is fired upwards with an initial velocity of 225 m/s, what is the velocity of the firework 3 seconds after being fired? 

195.6 m/s

A ball is kicked from a building that is 1,102.5 m tall. The horizontal speed given to the ball is 12.0 m/s. Assuming there is no air resistance, how far out from the base of the building will the ball land?

180 m

A paintball is fired horizontally from a tower 65 m above the ground. If the paintball gun fires the paintball at 125 m/s, how far away from the base of the tower will the paintball land?

455 m

A ball rolls off a desk that’s 1.5 m tall. If the ball is rolling at a speed of 3.2 m/s, how far away from the desk will the ball land on the ground?

1.76 m

A projectile is fired horizontally with a speed of 35 m/s from the top of a cliff that is 75 m high. How far from the foot of the cliff will the projectile strike the ground?

136.5 m

A ball is thrown with a horizontal velocity of 42 m/s at a height of 120 m above the ground. What is the horizontal distance covered by the ball when it lands?

205.8 m