Vocab & Concepts: Kinematics Flashcards
How is position described?
Relative to a reference point which includes magnitude and direction.
What is displacement?
Change in position of an object in a straight line including direction.
What is distance?
The magnitude of the ground covered.
What are vector and scalar quantities?
A vector quantities includes both magnitude and direction whereas a scalar quantity only includes magnitude.
Explain speed and velocity and the difference between them?
Describe the amount of change in an objects position over a time interval. Speed is equal to distance over time (d/t) and velocity is equal to displacement over time (d/t). The difference between speed and velocity is that speed is a scalar quantity while velocity is a vector quantity.
What is acceleration?
Describes the rate of change in velocity.
Acceleration and velocity can be _______ or _______
Constant or variable
What happens with constant velocity or acceleration?
Changes by the same amount each second.
What happens with variable velocity or acceleration?
Changes by variable amounts each second.
The slope of the distance-time graph is equal to the _______.
Speed of the object’s motion that was graphed.
The slope of the displacement-time graph is equal to the _______.
Velocity of the object’s motion that was graphed.
The slope of the velocity-time graph is equal to the _______.
Acceleration of the object’s motion that was graphed.
What are vectors?
A vector involved is displacements, for instance when an object undergoes two displacements you can find total displacement by placing the vectors tip to tail. Vector quantities are not fully described unless both magnitude and direction are given.
What is two dimensional motion?
When objects are thrown in the air at slow moderate speeds, they create parabolic arcs, which can be analysed with both vertical and horizontal motion.
What speed does an objects travel when free falling downwards?
9.81 m/s/s