Chapter 1- Motion Flashcards
The starting point you choose to describe the location, or postion of an object
Reference point
An objects distance and direction from a reference point.
Postion
The car is 25 meters east of door 9. What is this call?
Postion
Process of changing postion
Motion
Total length of an object’s path
Distance
Distance between the starting point and the ending point
displacement
How do u calculate speed?
Distance divided by time
Speed and direction of an object
Velocity
change in velocity (speed ans direction.)
Acceleration
| | |------------- | ----------------- Time Identify what is happening?
Object at rest, away from the orgin
There is no speed, velocity, and acceleration.
| / | / | / |/ ----------------- Time Identify what is happening
Object moves away from orgin with constant speedand direction
No acceleration
|. \ |. \ |. \ |. \ ----------------- Time Idetify what is happening
Starts away from orgin and moves back to orgin in constant speed
No acceleration
✔️. Identify what is happening ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ----------------- Time
Object moves away from orgin
Speed is increasing
Object is accelerating
Velocity is changing
The dog ran at a rate of 3m/sec
Identify what this is
Speed
A bicylist learns over as she makes a turn down the hill
This is what?
Acceleration