Displacement
Jaime travels 200m west away from where he began (his origin). What is his displacement?
200m
What is velocity?
What is speed?
Distance/Time
The total path between two objects.
How an object's motion appears depending upon a frame of reference.
Jaime travels 200m toward the west along a hiking path as he returns toward where he began (the origin). What is his displacement?
-200m west
The change in position of an object.
A quantity with magnitude and direction.
Jessie travels around a 400m track and ends where he begins. What is his displacement?
0m
The standard international (SI) unit for time is what?
s, seconds
A quantity with magnitude only.
Steven travels 3m west and 4m north, what is his displacement? (Hint: Use the Pythagorean Theorem)
5m NW
The standard international (SI) unit for speed is what?
meters/second, m/s
The distance an object travels over time.
Is this a scalar or vector quantity?
speed, scalar
Jesus travels 12m south and 5m east. What is his displacement? (Hint: Use the Pythagorean theorem)
13m SE
How does distance differ from displacement?
Displacement has direction, distance does not.
Speed with direction. What does it mean to be a vector?