The document provides a method called KUDOS for solving physics word problems. It breaks the method down into the following steps: 1) Identify known and unknown quantities and write them symbolically. 2) Define equations needed to relate the known and unknown quantities. 3) Plug values into the equations and perform calculations to determine the unknown quantity. 4) Check that the answer makes physical sense by validating units and significant figures. It then provides an example problem on finding the average velocity of a ship traveling 4727 km in 3.4 days.