Kinematics Flashcards

1
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What is the study of motion

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Mechanics

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2
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What is the study of how things move?

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Kinematics

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3
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Which Ancient Greek believed that things move as they do because it is their nature

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Aristotle

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4
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Studied falling objects

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Galileo

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5
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Galileo came to what conclusion

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his conclusion was that objects will fall at the same rate in a vacuum (space)

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6
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developed the 1st truly mathematical model of motion in the late 1600s

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Issac Newton

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7
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Issac Newtons 3 laws of motion and law of universal gravitation form the basis for what

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classical mechanics

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8
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what is classical mechanics

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study of how and why things move

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9
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why do we use the newtonian model

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because makes predictions relatively accurate for most things without being overly complex

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10
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a coordinate system used to describe the motion of an object

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Frames of Referance

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11
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a portion of a larger motion that we are interested in studying rather than all the possible motion

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A System

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12
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Distance is…… (list all possible facts)

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a scalar quantity indicating how far and object moves during a time interval
represented with lowercase d

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13
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a scalar quantity indicating how far and object moves during a time interval

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Distance

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14
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represented with lowercase d

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distance

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15
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Displacement is…… (list all possible facts)

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a vector quantity that describes a change in position
represented with /\X

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16
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represented with /\X

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Displacement

17
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a vector quantity that describes a change in position

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Displacement

18
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includes distance and direction

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displacement

19
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Distance is always….

20
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displacement can be negative
(True/False

21
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a measurable quantity that consists of magnitude

22
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is scalar or vector measured with size only

23
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Scalar quantities (4)

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Distance
Temperature
Pressure
Speed

24
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a measurable quantity with both magnitude and direction

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Vector quantities (4)
Displacement Velocity Acceleration Force
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a scalar quantity indicating the rate at which an object moves
speed
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A vector quantity indicating the rate at which an object's position changes
Velocity
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a property of a moving system that is equal to its velocity times its mass also a vector quantity
Momentum (p)
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the rate in change in velocity vector quantity change in speed, direction, or both can be positive or negative unit m/s squared
Acceleration
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Facts about Acceleration
the rate in change in velocity vector quantity change in speed, direction, or both can be positive or negative unit m/s squared
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the motion of an object that falls due to gravity alone with no other forces acting upon it
Free fall
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movement along a circular path
Circular motion
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circular motion can cause what
acceleration
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acceleration that causes an object to move toward the center of a circular path
Centripetal
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Negative acceleration
slowing down
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the 2 dimensional motion of any flying object whose curved path is determined by the influence of an external force only, such as gravity
projectile motion
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the curved path of the projectile
trajectory