Vocabulary
The change in position of an object.
What is displacement?
What is always on the x-axis?
What is the independent variable?
The total path traveled.
What is distance?
Speed = distance ÷ ______
time
Name one way acceleration can happen.
Speed up, slow down, or change direction
How fast something is moving.
What is speed?
What is always on the y-axis?
What is the dependent variable?
The straight-line change from start to finish.
What is displacement?
Velocity must include what that speed does not?
Direction
Acceleration = change in velocity ÷ ______
time
Speed in a specific direction.
What is velocity?
What does the slope of a distance-time graph represent?
What is speed (velocity)?
Can distance be negative?
No.
If you travel 100 m in 20 s, what is your speed?
5 m/s
A positive slope on a velocity-time graph means what?
Positive acceleration
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is acceleration?
A straight horizontal line on a distance-time graph means what?
The object is not moving.
Can displacement be negative?
Yes.
If velocity stays the same, what kind of motion is it?
Constant velocity
A flat line on a velocity-time graph means what?
No acceleration (constant velocity)
The variable that is changed on purpose in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
What does the slope of a velocity-time graph represent?
What is acceleration?
If you walk 10 m east then 10 m west, what is displacement?
0 m
Instantaneous speed means what?
Speed at a specific moment
If velocity changes from 10 m/s to 20 m/s in 5 s, what is acceleration?
2 m/s²