The the distance an object moves to the amount of time needed to travel the distance.
What is speed?
Of the following, the one that would be most practical for measuring the length of your finger. kilometers miles centimeters feet
What is centimeters?
This is measured by your car's speedometer.
What is instantaneous speed?
Acceleration is described as changes in ________, changes in ___________, or both.
What are speed/velocity and direction?
Motion of a car if the line on the graph is horizontal How would you describe its speed?
What is constant speed?
The speed at which an object is traveling and the direction it is traveling.
What is velocity?
Nikki's total displacement if he drives 4 miles east from his house to pick up his friend Dave, and then drive 2 more miles east to school.
What is 6 miles East?
The speed of a train car if its distance-time graph indicates that it traveled 200 meters in 25 seconds.
What is 8 meters per second?
The acceleration of a bus moving at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour.
What is zero?
Motion of a car if the line on the graph is horizontal How would you describe its acceleration?
What is zero acceleration?
The speed at a specific point in time.
What is instantaneous speed?
The position of an object can be described by this vocab term.
What is a reference point?
The formula for calculating acceleration.
What is the change in velocity (Vf-Vi) divided by the total time?
Motion of a car if the line on the graph is going down How would you describe its speed?
What is slowing down?
The direction and total distance from the starting point to the ending point.
What is displacement?
Monique's total displacement if she walks 2 blocks east to her friend Carla's house, then 4 blocks west (past her own house) to her friend Kate's house.
What is 2 blocks West?
The acceleration of a car traveling at 10 meters per second that takes 20 seconds to stop.
What is 0.5 meters per second squared?
Motion of a car if the line on the graph is going down How would you describe its acceleration?
What is negative acceleration?
Johnny's total displacement if he walks 2 miles to the school, and then takes the short cut back home that is only 1 mile.
What is zero?
Motion of a car if the line on the graph is going up How would you describe its speed?
What is speeding up?