Vocabulary
The location of a place or object at any point in time
What is position
On a DISTANCE-TIME Graph of 3 runners how would you know who won the race?
What it by seeing which runner had the highest speed and completed the course.
_________ is defined as an object's change in position relative to a frame of reference.
What is motion
On a VELOCITY-TIME Graph, how would you know when the person was speeding up?
What is when you see a line that increases from the origin
A flat or horizontal line on a Distance-Time Graph shows that there is this much speed
What is ZERO
________ happens when things speed up, slow down, or change direction.
What is acceleration
On a VELOCITY-TIME Graph, what does a straight horizontal line mean?
What is there is constant speed
__________: where an object is at any particular time.
What is position
Describe what a VELOCITY -TIME Graph would look like if the car was coming to a stop sign.
What is the line would be descending from a point higher on the graph all the way to the x-axis
Acceleration refers to what kind of change in velocity
What is any change Ex. speeding up while hitting the gas or slowing down while hitting the brakes
Explain the difference between calculating average speed and calculating average velocity.
What is avg speed is the change in distance over time and avg velocity is the displacement over time
True or False: Distance is a scalar and Displacement is a vector.
What is true
Describe what a DISTANCE-TIME Graph would look like that shows constant speed.
What is a straight line starting at the origin and increasing upward in the same direction
The factors that determine how fast an object falls through the air are mass, _____ ______, and acceleration due to gravity.
What is surface area