1D Kinematics vocabulary

Distance

• The overall change in position

• How far something travels along a path

• How fast something goes

• Speed with direction

Displacement

• How far something goes along its path

• The overall change in position

• The steepness of a slope

• A measure of time

Speed

• How fast something goes

• Speed with direction

• Total length of path traveled

• Change in speed

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Velocity

• How fast something goes

• Speed with direction

• The total path length

• The starting position

Acceleration

• Speed with direction

• Change in velocity

• The total path length

• The steepness of a slope

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Position

• Where something is located

• How fast something goes

• Change in speed

• Speed with direction

Time

• How long an event lasts

• How far something goes

• Speed with direction

• The slope of a line

Instantaneous Speed

• Average over a whole trip

• Speed at one exact moment

• Speed with direction

• How long the trip takes

Average Speed

• How far you go in a certain amount of time on average

• Speed at one moment

• Speed with direction

• A measure of position

Scalar Quantity

• A measurement with magnitude and direction

• A measurement with only magnitude, no direction

• A measure of how steep something is

• A speed at one moment