Motion Vocabulary
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Velocity
Acceleration
Potpourri
100
The distance traveled by an object divided by the time it takes to travel that distance
What is speed?
100
Must be a straight line distance between two locations & indicate a direction.
What is displacement?
100
km/hr m/hr m/s
What are the units for speed?
100
Acceleration is described as changes in ________, changes in ___________, or both.
What are speed and direction?
100
Slowing down, speeding up or changing directions
What is acceleration?
200
The speed at which an object is traveling and the direction it is traveling.
What is velocity?
200
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?
200
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?
200
The acceleration of a bus moving at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour.
What is zero?
200
negative acceleration or slowing down
What is deceleration?
300
the change in the position of an object
What is displacement?
300
Can be a straight line, but it doesn't have to
What is distance?
300
The faster runner between Bo & Mo, if Bo runs 4 miles in 1 hour, and Mo runs 2 miles in 20 minutes.
Who is Mo?
300
km/hr2 m/s2 km/hr/s
What are the units for acceleration?
300
An object moving at 30m/s takes 5s to stop. What is the object's acceleration?
What is -6m/s2?
400
An object's change in position relative to a reference point
What motion?
400
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?
400
A train's speed if it travels 189 kilometers in 3 hours.
What is 63 km/hour?
400
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?
400
A ball moving at constant speed around a circular track
What is acceleration?
500
The change in velocity divided by the time.
What is acceleration?
500
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?
500
A jogger's AVERAGE speed if she jogs 40 kilometers in 32 hours, then 20 kilometers in 22 hours, and finally 10 kilometer in 16 hours.
What is 1.0 kilometers per hour?
500
The acceleration of a race car that goes from a pace car speed of 400,000 kilometers per second to full speed of 900,000 kilometers per second in 10 seconds.
What is 50,000 kilometers per second squared?
500
- 4 km/hr/s 3 answers!
What is negative acceleration, deceleration, slowing down?
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