Movin' and
Groovin'
Groovin'
A point against which direction is measured.
What is reference point?
The length of a path between two points.
What is distance?
This tells you how quickly an object moves in relation to a reference point.
What is speed?
This is the steepness of a line on a graph.
What is a slope?
This mathematical operation is meant when the word “per” is used (such as miles per hour)?
What is division?
The distance an object travels plus the direction from the starting point.
What is displacement?
A physical measurement that contains only magnitude (number) and does not contain directional information.
What is scaler quantity?
The ratio of the total distance traveled to the total time of the trip.
What is average speed?
This shows the speed on a speed-time graph.
What is the slope of the line?
The proper term to used in physics for an object that is slowing down.
What is the direction of the acceleration?
This is what most of physics is concerned with.
What is motion?
A physical measurement that contains both magnitude (number) and directional information.
What is vector quantity?
The speedometer on your car tells you this type of speed.
What is instantaneous speed?
This shows acceleration on a speed-time graph
What is the slope of the line?
The direction if the equation for the relative speed of two objects is (speed of object 1 + speed of object 2).
What is the opposite direction?
This is the concept that means there are no perfectly stationary objects to use to judge motion. In physics motion is always measured relative to something else.
What is “all motion is relative?”
These are two types of information that displacement tell us.
What are magnitude and the direction?
This tells you how quickly and in what direction an object is moving in relation to a reference point.
What is velocity?
Equal distances are traveled in equal times.
What is constant speed?
The direction if the equation for the relative speed of two objects is (speed of object 1 - speed of object 2).
What is the same direction?
This branch of physics deals with analyzing and understanding objects in motion, the forces applied to those objects and the energy that exists in them.
What is the science of mechanics?
We use these in order to find the final position of an object that has moved.
What are distance traveled and direction traveled?
The time rate of change of an object’s velocity.
What is acceleration?
This is used to estimate values that are either higher or lower that actual data collected.
What is extrapolation?
This matters when calculating velocity since velocity is a vector quantity.
What is direction?