Numbers with only magnitude
What are scalars?
Location of an Object within a frame Of reference
What is position?
Size of a quantity, How big or small
What is Magnitude?
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 faster runner if Bo runs 4 miles in 1 hour, and Mo runs 2 miles in 20 minutes. ( 0.3 hr)
Who is Mo?
Quantities that are described by both magnitude and direction
What is a vector?
A train's average speed if it travels 190 kilometers in 3 hours, and then 120 kilometers in 2 hours.
What is 62 kilometers per hour?
Process of changing Position from one location to another
What is motion?
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
The acceleration of a race car that goes from a pace car speed of 400000 kilometers per second to full speed of 900000 kilometers per second in 10 seconds.
What is 50000 kilometers per second squared?
Motion of a car if the line on a velocity-time graph is a straight line down.
What is slowing down?