Intro to Physics

The starting point you choose to describe the location, or position, of an object.

• Reference point

• Position

• Motion

• Displacement

Is an object's distance and direction from a reference point

• Speed

• Position

• Velocity

• Acceleration

is the process if changing position

• motion

• distance

• speed

• velocity

is the length of the path something moves

• distance

• motion

• position

• speed

is the difference between the initial position and the final position of an object

• displacement

• distance

• speed

• motion

is a measure of the distance an object travels per unit of time

• speed

• motion

• distance

• displacement

is the rate of change of position in which the same distance is traveled each second

• constant speed

• instantaneous speed

• average speed

is speed at a specific instant in time

• constant speed

• instantaneous speed

• average speed

is the total distance traveled divided by the total time taken to travel that distance

• average speed

• constant speed

• instantaneous speed

is the speed and the direction of a moving object

• constant speed

• instantaneous speed

• average speed

• velocity