When and where? (p.

25)
7. Displacement
Here —…— There
Position
8. A position vector goes from the origin to the object. When the origins are different, the
position vectors are different. On the other hand, a displacement vector has nothing to do with
the origin.

Displacement
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Critical Thinking
10. The two students should agree on the displacement, distance, and time interval for the trip,
because these three quantities are independent of where the origin of the coordinate system is
placed. The two students would not agree on the car’s position, because the position is measured
from the origin of the coordinate system to the location of the car.

1.Acceleration (p.40)
Summarize(Big idea)
Acceleration is the rate of change in an object’s velocity

Review it
11. Main idea
Speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction.

12. A. The velocity-time graph is derived from the position-time graph. The difference between
them is that the velocity-time graph reveals the speed of an object (and whether it is slowing
down or speeding up), while the position-time graph describes the motion of an object over a
period of time.

B. The difference between them is that the velocity-time graph reveals the speed of an object
(and whether it is slowing down or speeding up), while the position-time graph describes the
motion of an object over a period of time.
13.

2 Representing motion (P. 30)

Main idea
An object’s velocity is the rate of change in its position

Absolute value: Absolute value is a magnitude and is either positive or zero. Zero is neither
positive nor negative. But the absolute value of any non-zero number can be thought of as it's
distance from zero and it will always be positive.

1. The instantaneous velocity is the specific rate of change of position (or displacement) with
respect to time at a single point (x,t), while average velocity is the average rate of change of
position (or displacement) with respect to time over an interval.

2. the total distance traveled divided by the total time elapsed.

Summarize
Velocity Is the rate of change of displacement with time.
As a vector it must be stated with both magnitude and direction
is measured over a non-zero-time interval
is represented by the symbol vave or v (vee bar)

Speed Is the rate of change of distance with time.

As a scalar it has magnitude only.
is measured over a non-zero-time interval
is represented by the symbol vave or v (vee bar)
2 motion with constant acceleration (p. 44)
Solve for the unknown

 Acceleration is constant over the first ten seconds, so at the end

v = vi + at = 0 + (2.00 m/s2)(10.0 s) = 20.0 m/s

Then a = 0 so v is constant from t = 10.0 s to t = 15.0 s. And over the last five seconds the velocity
changes to
v = vi + at = 20.0 m/s – (3.00 m/s2)(5.00 s) = 5.00 m/s
In the first ten seconds x = xi + vi t + 1 2 at2 = 0 + 0 + 1 2 (2.00 m/s2)(10.0 s) 2 = 100 m
Over the next five seconds the position changes to x = xi + vi t + 1 2 at2 = 100 m + 20.0 m/s (5.00 s)
+ 0 = 200 m And at t = 20.0 s
x = xi + vi t + 1 2 at2 = 200 m + 20.0 m/s (5.00 s) + 1 2 (–3.00 m/s2)(5.00 s) 2 = 262 m

Write This is simply how we define a duration of time. The quantities t1 and t2 represent
two events (with 1 being first). The difference in the two-time measurements represents a
duration of time. Typically, this is measured in seconds, but always in units of time.
Acceleration (p. 41)
A. V= vi +vf
2
=2.0m/s+(-4.0m/s
2
=-1.0 m/s
=1.0m/s

B. A=Δv
Δt
= vf- vi
Δt
(-4.0m/s) - (2.0m/s)
=0.75 m/s2
=0.75m/s2

15. Critical thinking No, they had the same position, not velocity. To have the same
velocity, they would have had to have the same relative position for a length of time.