Vocab
Where an object is located at any particular time
What is position?
total length traveled by the object
What is distance?
What is the speed of a car traveling 50 miles in 2 hours?
25 miles/hr
What is the acceleration of a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 m/s in 3 seconds?
20 m/s^2
x-axis always has which measurement?
time
The change is one's position
What is motion?
The distance and direction of the object’s change in position (an object’s change in position)
What is displacement?
How long does it take for a car to travel 500 meters if he is driving at 4 m/s?
125 s
3 ways to accelerate
Speed up, slow down, change directions
What is distance?
The distance an object travels in a given time period
What is speed?
The distance traveling 400 ft to your friends house and back.
What is 800 ft?
500 meters
The sun rotates at a constant speed, and therefore does not experience acceleration. True or false?
False!
The speed of a line is found by determing the _____ side first then the _______ side.
distance, time
Speed in a given direction
What is velocity?
The displacement traveling 400 ft to your friends house and back?
0 ft
What is the speed of a spaceship going a distance of 1000 km for .5 hours?
2000 km/hr
What is the acceleration of a cat that is running at 12 m/s then goes to 5 m/s in 2 s?
-3.5 m/s^2
Units of the x-axis (time) are what?
seconds, minutes, hours
A change in an object’s velocity over time
What is acceleration?
What is the displacement of a person walking 20 feet east, 30 feet east, 40 feet west?
10 ft east
How far does spiderman travel if he is traveling at a speed of 75 mph for .2 hours?
15 miles
What is the acceleration of an object who's final velocity is 20 m/s after 10 seconds. He started out at 40 m/s.
-2 m/s^2
The units for the y-axis (distance) are what?
meters, kilometers, miles, feet, etc