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Speed is a measure of

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How fast something moves

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What is our speed relative to the sun?

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107,000 km/hr

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Speed is defined as

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Distance covered per unit of time

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Units of measurement for speed

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Meters / sec

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What is instantaneous speed?

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The speed at any instance in time

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What is avrg. Speed?

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The distant travelled along its path divided by the time it takes to travel this distance

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Speed is

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Scalar

Only magnitude

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Velocity is

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A vector quantity

Both magnitude and Direction

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Difference between velocity and speed

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Velocity is speed in a given direction

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Constant direction is a

So constant velocity is

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Straight line

Motion in a straight line at a constant speed

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What is instantaneous velocity

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The avrg. Velocity over an really short time period

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What is acceleration

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The rate at which the velocity is changing

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How do we Change the state of motion

when does acceleratation occour

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Change in speed, direction, or both

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Units of acceleration

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m/s^2

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Why did Galileo use inclined planes

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To observe decreasing acceleration due to gravity

Because suitable timing devices weren’t avaliable to him

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Acceleration in the direction of velocity is referred to as

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Speeding up

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Acceleration against velocity is referred to as

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Slowing down

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Acceleration at an agle to velocity is referred to as a

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Change of direction

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When straight line motion is considered what is used interchangeably

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Speed and velocity

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The acceleration of an object in free fall is about

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10 m/s^2

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Free fall

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An object moving under the influence of gravitational force only

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Accerlation is the ___ weather the object is going up or down

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Same

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Gravity cause objects to accelerate towards

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The centre of the earth

downward

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