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When describing motion, we need to focus on two important aspects: the … whose motion we are describing (the …) and the … who is doing the describing (the …)

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object; object of interest; person; observer

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Motion is a change in an object’s …. relative to a …. during a certain change in ….

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position; given observer; time

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Without identifying the observer, it is impossible to say whether the object of interest

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moved

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physicists say motion is …., meaning that the motion of any object of interest depends on the …. of the observer

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relative; point of view

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people intuitively use … as the object of reference- the object with respect to which they …

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earth; describe motion

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what we view as the object of reference influences how we

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describe motion

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specifying the observer before describing the motion of an object of an interest is an extremely important part of constructing what physicists call a

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reference frame

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a reference frame includes an …, a …. with a … for measuring …, and a … to measure …

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object of reference; coordinate system; scale; distances; clock; time

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if the object of reference is large and cannot be considered a point-like object, it is important to specify where on the object of reference the … of the coordinate system is placed

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origin

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(reference frame includes) an object of reference with a specific …. on it

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point of reference

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(reference frame includes) a coordinate system, which includes one or more …., and an …. located at the … it also includes a … for specifying … along the xes

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coordinate axes; origin; point of reference; scale; distances

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(reference frame includes) a clock which includes an … called … and a unit of measurement for specifying … and ….

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origin in time; t=0; time; time intervals

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one-dimensional/linear motion is a model of motion that assumes that an object, considered as a …., moves along a …

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point-like object; straight line

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when the object travels at constant speed, the dots are

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evenly spaced

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when the object slows down, the dots get

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closer

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when the object moves faster and faster, the dots get

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farther apart

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we can represent motion in even more detail by adding … to each dot that indicate which … the object is moving and how … it is moving as it passes a particular position

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velocity arrows; way; fast

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dot diagrams + velocity arrows is

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motion diagram

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the longer the arrow, the … the motion

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faster

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vectors have … and …

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direction; magnitude

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velocity change arrow (Δv→) indicates change in … on …

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velocity; motion diagram

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a velocity change arrow is a … indication

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qualitative

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a velocity change arrow points in the same direction as the velocity arrows when object is …. it points in the opposite direction when the object is …

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speeding up; slowing down

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when velocity changes are the same for each time interval, all of the velocity change arrows will be the …, so we only need use … for the whole motion diagram

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same length; one

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time described in two ways:
time: the … clock reading
time interval (…): the … clock readings

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actual; Δt; difference in

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time and time interval are

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scalar quantities

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position: object’s … with respect to the …

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location; coordinate system

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displacement: … quantity that defines the change in … (…)

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vector; position; Xf - Xi

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distance: … of …

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magnitude; displacement

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path length: how … the object moved as it traveled from …

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far; initial position to final position

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the quantity determined through subtracting Xf-Xi is called …. or simply …., appreviated…

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x-scalar component of the displacement; x-component of the displacement; dx

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kinematics: description of

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motion

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the slope of an x-t graph equals … = ….

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X2- X1 / t2 - t1 = Δx/Δt m/s

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the slope of an x-t graph indicates how the object’s … changes with respect to …, tells … relative to ….

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position; time; direction of motion; coordinate axis

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the slope of an x-t graph is equal to

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velocity

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velocity = .. + …

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speed; direction

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V= Δx/Δt is only for

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constant velocity linear motion

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speed is the … and is always …

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magnitude of velocity; positive

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V=Δx/Δt can be arranged to devise the following equation:

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X2 = X1 + Vx(t2-t1)

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applying X2 = X1 + Vx(t2-t1) for time zero, when initial position is X0, the equation can be written as

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X= X0 + Vx*t

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Rearranging the equation for an object’s position (X= X0 + Vx*t ) yields …, this is … and is also the … on the v-t graph

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x - x0 = vx*t;

displacement; area

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for motion with constant velocity, the magnitude of the displacement of an object is the … between a v-t graph line and the …. between the time readings

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area; time axis

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displacement is the area with a + sign when velocity is …, and area with - sign when velocity is …

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positive; negative

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instantaneous velocity: velocity of an object at a

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particular time

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for accelerating objects, v = Δx/Δt can’t be used to determine …, but it can be used to find …

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instantaneous velocity; average velocity

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acceleration characterizes the rate at which

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velocity of an object is changing

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when object is moving along a straight line and the slope of the v-t graph is constant, acceleration follows this formula:

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ax = Δvx/ Δt

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average acceleration during a time interval: a =

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Δv/ Δt

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If Δt is very small, acceleration defined by the equation Δv/Δt is .., not …

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instantaneous; average

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units of acceleration:

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m/s^2

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it’s possible for an object to have … velocity and … acceleration: e.g. when an object starts ..

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zero; nonzero; moving from rest

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when object starts moving from rest, Vi is

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0

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an object can have .. velocity and … acceleration eg. if an object moves at …

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nonzero; zero; constant velocity

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If, for linear motion, t0=0, acceleration can be defined as:

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ax = (vx - v0x)/ t - 0

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ax = (vx - v0x)/ t - 0 can be arranged to get

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Vx = V0x + ax*t

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(displacement from constant a) for constant acceleration, noting that displacement is the area for the v-t graph, we can find this area by separating the graph into a

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triangle and rectangle

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(displacement from constant a) area of the triangle is

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1/2bh

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(displacement from constant a) base in this case is … which equals …, as initial time starts at … and is …

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Δt; t - 0; origin; 0

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(displacement from constant a) height in this case

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Δv

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(displacement from constant a) area of triangle is therefore

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A = 1/2(t - 0)(vx - v0x)

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(displacement from constant a) vx - vox = ax*t so area of triangle can be rewritten as

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A = 1/2(t)(axt) = 1/2ax*t^2

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(displacement from constant a) area of rectangle is width * height which therefore =

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Arect = Vx0 * (t-0)

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(displacement from constant a) thus, the area between curve and time axis (displacement) is:

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x - x0 = arect + atriangle

x = x0 + V0xt + 1/2ax*t^2

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alternate equation for linear motion with constant acceleration

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2ax (x - x0) = (Vx)^2 - (V0x)^2

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we can represent the motion of a falling ball mathematically using the equations of motion for constant acceleration with Ay =

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9.8 m/s^2

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For free fall (vertical motion), Vy =

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V0y + ayt = V0y + (9.8 m/s^2)t

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for free fall, displacement equation with acceleration becomes, y =

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y0 + v0yt + 1/2(9.8 m/s^2)t^2

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the magnitude of an object’s acceleration while falling without air resistance is given a special symbol, …, where it = …

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g; 9.8 m/s^2

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for an object that is at rest and remains at rest, the instant the object is not moving, its acceleration =

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0 m/s^2

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