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Speed Velocity and Acceleration: Everything You Need To Know About Motion

Motion can be described using speed, velocity, and acceleration. Speed is how fast something is moving, while velocity also includes direction. Acceleration is a change in velocity over time. An object can accelerate by changing its speed or changing direction.

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Speed Velocity and Acceleration: Everything You Need To Know About Motion

Motion can be described using speed, velocity, and acceleration. Speed is how fast something is moving, while velocity also includes direction. Acceleration is a change in velocity over time. An object can accelerate by changing its speed or changing direction.

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Speed

Velocity
and
Acceleration

Everything You Need To Know


About Motion
Motion
• Motion is just a change in position.

• To describe how an object moves you need

• A ruler to measure where an object is.


• And a clock to measure when an object is.
• Here is a little bug located at 0 cm at 0
seconds.
• 10 seconds later he is at 50 cm.
SPEED
• The speed of the bug is just his distance
traveled divided by how long it takes.

• Speed = distance/time

• Speed = 50 cm/10 s = 5 cm/s


• Speed is just how fast something is moving.

• Speed is always a positive number.

• Quantities that can be described by a single


number are called scalars.
MORE SCALARS
• TEMPERATURE
• VOLUME
• MASS
• STUDENTS IN A ROOM
• ENERGY
VELOCITY
• Velocity is speed and direction.

• Velocity is how fast and which way.

• Quantities that have direction are called


vectors.
MORE VECTORS
• ACCELERATION
• FORCE
• DISPLACEMENT
• MOMENTUM
• Suppose our bug stars off at 100 cm.
• And ends up at 80 cm 10 seconds later.
• Calculating velocity is a little more
complicated than calculating speed.

• Velocity = change in position/time

• Velocity = (final position – initial position)/time

• Velocity = (80cm – 100cm)/10 seconds

• Velocity = - 2 cm/s
• For objects moving along a straight line
• A positive velocity means moving to the
right. (usually)
• A negative means moving to the left.
(usually)
• A negative velocity does not mean an object
is moving slower than zero cm/s.

• You can’t move slower than standing still.

• It just means an object is moving in a


certain direction.
ACCELERATION
• Acceleration is a change in velocity.
• So an object accelerates if it
• Speeds up
• Slows down
• Or changes the direction it is moving,
• Acceleration = change in velocity/time

• Acceleration = (final velocity – initial velocity)/time

• Acceleration has units of


• velocity/time
• (meters per second)/seconds
• Or m/s/s or m/s2
confusion
• Acceleration, like velocity, has direction.

• For objects moving along a straight line the


direction of an object’s acceleration is
denoted by plus or minus.
• Acceleration = (30 m/s – 0 m/s)/10 s

• a = 3 m/s/s

• The car’s velocity is increasing 3 m/s per second.

• The car is accelerating towards the right.


• a = (0m/s – 20 m/s)/10 s

• a = - 2 m/s/s

• Although the car is moving to the right

• It is accelerating to the left!


• a = (final velocity – initial velocity)/time

• a = ( -30 m/s – 0 m/s)/ 10 s

• a = - 3 m/s/s

• The car is both moving to the left and accelerating to the left.

• Negative acceleration does not always mean an object is


slowing down!

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