Unit 6: Position/Velocity/Acceleration

Unit 6: Position/Velocity/Acceleration

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What is Motion?

• change in position

• resistance to position

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What is rate?

• a measure of something in relationship to time.

• Distance and speed

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What is speed

• Distance and force

• the measure of change in position in relation to time.

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What is constant speed?

• The rate goes up and down.

• Speed that does not change

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What is the average speed?

• The total distance traveled relative to the total time elapsed.

• Accelerated speed

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What is Instantaneous Speed?

• Speed at a specific point of travel.

• Constant speed

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What is Acceleration?

• Forces of change

• the rate of change of velocity.

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What is positive acceleration?

• Increase in speed

• Decreased time

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What is negative acceleration?

• Increased time

• Decrease in speed

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What is Displacement?

• Distance and direction of an object's change in position from the starting point.

• Forces of change at starting point.

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What is a force?

• Push or Pull

• speed

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What is balanced forces?

• Same direction and unequal forces moving.

• Equal forces acting on an object in opposite directions

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What is Newton's 1st Law (Law of Inertia)?

• An object will not change its motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced, net force.

• An object changes motion by balanced speed.

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What is Inertia?

• resistance to change in motion

• Changes in force