Basic Terms
The change in position of a body
What is displacement?
The quantity of an object's change in position divided by the time interval.
What is velocity?
A horizontal line on a position time graph indicates....
What is a stationary body or position remains constant over time?
An object speeds up steadily from rest to 15 m/s in 3.0 s. The object's acceleration is _____
What is 5.0 m/s/s?
The software we use for physics labs is known as?
What is graphical analysis?
Displacement takes into account _______, distance does not take this into account.
What is direction?
An object travels at a constant velocity of -35 m/s for 6.0 seconds. How far does it travel?
What is -210 m?
A linear graph with a negative slope on a position time graph indicates...
What is an body traveling at constant velocity, heading south or west or backwards?
A cross country runner moving at 7 m/s, steadily slows down to she is at rest. If this takes 2.0 s, then her acceleration is ?
What is -3.5 m/s/s?
The date of the 11th/12th grade dance this fall.
What is October 25th?
The total displacement of an object travels 12 m north, then 15 m south.
What is -3m or 3m, south?
An object is travelling at a constant velocity for a total of 21 seconds. In this time, the object travels 2500 m south. What is the velocity of the object?
What is -120 m/s?
A curve or parabola on a position time graph in the first quadrant indicates...
What is a body whose speed is increasing?
A car travelling 24 m/s speeds up at a rate of 4.0 m/s/s for 3.2 s. The final speed of the car is?
What is 36.8 m/s?
The types of pets Mrs. Talley has.
What are a dog and a cat?
A person walks 4km east, then 6 km west. Find the person's displacement.
What is -2 km or 2 km, west?
Sammy walks 6.0 km north, then he walks 8.0 km south. The walk takes him 2.0 hr. Is his average velocity positive, negative or zero?
What is negative?
A horizontal line above the time axis on a velocity time graph indicates....
What is a body travelling at a constant positive velocity?
If the moving man walks from the tree to the house in 8.0 s, what is his velocity?
His velocity is -2 m/s.
The name the PhET simulation that involves a dapper gentleman walking and running.
What is the Moving Man?
A quantity that has magnitude and direction is a ___ quantity.
What is a vector?
A physics buggy travels at a constant speed for 127 cm in 2.8s. Determine the buggy's velocity in m/s.
What is 0.45 m/s?
A line with a negative slope on a velocity time graph.
What is a body whose speed is slowing down, at a constant rate?
If the moving man walks from the brick wall, left of the tree to the house at a speed of 4 m/s, how long does it take?
It takes the moving man 4.5 s.
The names of Mrs. Talley's pets.
What are Omelette and Taters?