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For the body to be in the uniform motion, it must be moving in the straight line path.
What is speed?
Speed is a scalar quantity that refers to "how fast an object is moving." Speed is a scalar quantity and does
not keep track of direction. It can be thought of as the rate at which an object covers distance. As an object
moves, it often undergoes changes in speed. A fast-moving object has a high speed and covers a relatively
large distance in a short amount of time. Contrast this to a slow-moving object that has a low speed; it covers
a relatively small amount of distance in the same amount of time. An object with no movement at all has a
zero speed. Since a moving object often changes its speed during its motion, it is common to distinguish
between the instantaneous speed which is the speed at any given instant in time, and the average speed
which is - the average of all instantaneous speeds; found simply by a distance/time ratio.
For instance, an object falling in a vacuum under the influence of gravity has nearly uniform acceleration with a
change in speed, while a planet orbiting a star in a circular orbit has uniform acceleration with no change in
speed.
Velocity is a vector quantity that refers to "the rate at which an object changes its position." As such, velocity
is direction aware. When evaluating the velocity of an object, one must keep track of direction. The direction
of the velocity vector is simply the same as the direction that an object is moving. It would not matter whether
the object is speeding up or slowing down. If an object is moving rightwards, then its velocity is described as
being rightwards. If an object is moving downwards, then its velocity is described as being downwards. The
instantaneous velocity is the measure of velocity of an object at a particular moment. It shows how far the object would go within the
next second of time.
Any acceleration of an object necessarily implies a net force in the direction of acceleration.
Acceleration is a vector quantity that is defined as the rate at which an object changes its velocity with respect
to time, in a given direction. An object is accelerating if it is changing its velocity. It is positive when velocity is
increasing and negative if the velocity is decreasing. The negative acceleration is also called retardation and deceleration. In this section we
Since accelerating objects are constantly changing their velocity, one can say that the distance travelled, time
is not a constant value. A falling object for instance usually accelerates as it falls. When an object is in free fall you
can measure the time it takes to fall a distance and determine the acceleration on the object due to gravity. A free fall apparatus can be
used to determine the precise time it takes to travel a certain distance so the acceleration can be determined. An object in free fall
would only be under the force of Gravity. Air resistance plays a very minor role in free fall since unless the fall was happening at an
incredible distance the air resistance would be small. Since acceleration is a vector quantity, it has a direction associated
with it. The direction of the acceleration vector depends on two things: whether the object is speeding up or
slowing down or whether the object is moving in the + or direction. The general principle for determining
the acceleation is: If an object is slowing down, then its acceleration is in the opposite direction of its motion.
This general principle can be applied to determine whether the sign of the acceleration of an object is positive
or negative, right or left, or up or down. In physics, the use of positive and negative always has a physical
meaning. It is more than a mere mathematical symbol. As used here to describe the velocity and the
acceleration of a moving object, positive and negative describe a direction. Both velocity and acceleration are
vector quantities and a full description of the quantity demands the use of a directional adjective. When an
object is accelerating at a constant rate its motion can be modelled by two simple equations, a = ( Vf - Vi ) / t and d = 1/2 ( Vf +
Vi ) t . Using these equations gives you the ability to discover information about the motion while lacking a variable. The
equations can be rearranged and substituted into each other to compensate for the lack of the distance, initial speed, final
speed, acceleration or the time variable. In summary, acceleration is defined as the rate of change of the velocity over the time taken. In
one dimension, the term acceleration is defined at the rate at which the object slows down and speeds up. The instantaneous acceleration is
defined as the acceleration at any particular time period and it is When the object is moving with variable acceleration and the object
possesses different acceleration at different instant.
In an environment with negligible friction, a constant force of uniform magnitude produces constant and
uniform acceleration. In the case of gravitational acceleration mentioned above, the constant force is gravity,
which accelerates an object toward the gravitational center of another mass. This is true even if the initial
direction of motion is opposite to the gravitational force, like a ball thrown straight up, because deceleration
in one direction is equivalent to acceleration in the opposite direction. In the case of an orbiting object such as
a planet, the force of gravity accelerates the body not in the direction of motion, nor in the opposite direction,
but at a right angle to it. This is similar to the centripetal forces that hold together the materials of a spinning
wheel.
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