Units
Speed and Velocity
Acceleration
Graphing Motion
Potpourii
100
The basic unit of length in science
What is a Meter?
100
The units of speed used in science
What are m/s?
100
What the change of speed is
What is acceleration?
100
What a motion graph that is an upsloping line from the origin in a distance vs. time graph...see board
What is steady speed?
100
What miles/day are an example of
What is speed?
200
The system of units used in science
What is the metric or SI system?
200
40 m/s North
What is as an example velocity?
200
The sign of acceleration if you are slowing down.
What is negative?
200
A graph that plots as a horizontal line in a distance vs. time graph
What is being stopped?
200
Why 39 miles/hour is not a velocity
What is missing the direction?
300
The units of mass used in science
What are kilograms (kg)?
300
Delta x/Delta t
What is the mathematical definition of speed?
300
What your acceleration is if you increase your speed from 10 m/s to 50 m/s in 4 seconds
What is 10 m/s^2?
300
What is happening when the distance vs. time graph slopes down in a straight line down to the X axis
What is moving at steady speed back to where you started?
300
What the acceleration is when the line is flat on a velocity vs. time graph
What is 0?
400
Units of velocity used in science
What is m/s---meters per second ?
400
A reference point
What you need to have to know that you are really moving?
400
What you get when you multiply acceleration by time.
How much you speed has changed?
400
What is happening if a line is sloping upwards in a velocity vs. time graph
What is acceleration?
400
Different frames of references. Why you seem to be speeding past a person on the side of a trail as you speed along on a 4 wheeler when the person you are riding with doesn't appear to be moving to you.
What are different frames of reference?
500
What the units of acceleration are
What m/s^2?
500
What you get when you multiply velocity by change of time
What is displacement?
500
What your speed is if you are going 10 m/s and you accelerate at a rate of 2m/s^2 for 5 seconds
What is 20 m/s?
500
What is happening if the graph curves upwards in a distance vs. time graph
What is acceleration?
500
What the acceleration of a person going from a standing start to 5000 m/s in 10 seconds.
What is 500 m/s?