The Starting point you choose to describe a location, or position of an object.
100
What is motion?
The process of changing position
100
What is the definition of speed?
The measure of the distance an object travels per unit of time
100
What is the difference between velocity and speed?
Velocity has a direction and magnitude, speed is just magnitude
100
What is my hometown?
Raynesford
200
What is position
An objects distance and direction from a reference point
200
What is distance
Total length traveled
200
What is the unit of speed we would use looking at seconds and meters
Meters per second
200
How would we graph someones average speed over a race?
Distance-Time Graph
200
Where did I go to college?
Rocky Mountain College
300
Why would you use a reference point to describe position?
You can give someone easy to understand directions from an easily identifiable marking point.
300
What is discplacement
The difference between the initial position and final position of an object
300
How do you calculate average speed?
v=d/t
300
What is acceleration?
The measure of the change in velocity during a period of time.
300
What is my favorite animal?
Bear
400
When using a location as a reference point to get somewhere else, can you use positive and negative measurements as directions?
Yes
400
What is the difference between distance and displacement
Distance looks at total distance traveled, whereas displacement only looks at distance away from start.
400
What is the difference between instantaneous speed and average speed?
Average looks at the total distance by the total time,instantaneous is just how fast you are going at a specific instance
400
What would you use to graph acceleration?
A speed-time graph
400
What sport did I do in college?
XC/ TF
500
Do the problem on the board
Answer on board
500
If you hit a homerun on a baseball field that has basepaths of 90 feet each, what is your total distance and displacement when you finish your trot around the bases.
Distance: 360 Displacement: 0
500
If I go 953 meters in 4:21 seconds, what is my meters per second.