Motions Calculations
Motion Vocab
Motion Labs
Motion Units
Motion Graphs
100
A car traveling 10 miles in 0.25 hours
What is 40 miles/hour?
100
Involves both speed and direction.
What is velocity
100
In Accelerated Marbles, this was the independent variable.
What is height of ramp (or number of books)?
100
m/s/s
What is Acceleration?
100
Position-Time Graph Upward straight slope line
What is constant speed?
200
A plane goes from 0 km/h to 500 km/h in 10 min
What is 50 km/h/min?
200
Shift in position or starting point to ending point.
Displacement.
200
In Domino Dash, you calculated this.
What is average speed?
200
Km, miles, meters.
What is distance?
200
Velocity-Time Graph Flat line (no slope)
What is constant speed
300
Your displacement starting at 2 m north, 4 m west, 6 m south, 4 m west.
What is 4 m south?
300
Speeding up, Slowing down, or changing direction
What is Acceleration?
300
In Bubble Gum physics, you converted how of these you could do in 30 seconds
What are chomps?
300
m/s, miles/hour, km/hour, cm/s
What is speed
300
Position-Time Graph Straight slope, then curves and flattens to no slope.
What is slowing down and stopping?
400
Accelerating from 65 mph to standstill in 10 seconds
What is 6.5 miles per hour per second?
400
Rise over Run or y/x.
What is slope
400
In Speed Stations, the speed a leaf falls a distance of 100 cm in 5 seconds?
What is 20 cm/s?
400
70 km east
What is displacement
400
Velocity-Time Graph Downward slope
What is slowing down?
500
How far you can travel in 10 minutes, moving at 125 meters in one minute?
What is 1250 m? (or 1.25 Km).
500
Your starting point.
What is reference point?
500
In Accelerated Marbles, your initial marble speed?
What is 0 m/s?
500
65 mph westbound on I-80
What is velocity?
500
Position Time Graph Downward slope.
What is returning to starting position?
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