Position

The line is coordinated and referenced from a point 0, the origin. For a horizontal line the convention is
that positions to the right of 0 are positive and positions to the left are negative.

For example:

A 0 B

-4m 3m

The position of the particle at B is 3m.

The position of the particle at A is -4m.

The position of a particle is often thought of as a function of time, and we write x(t) for the position of
the particle at time t.

Time

Time is what clock reads. In classical, non-relativistic physics it is a scalar quantity and, like length, mass,
and charge, is usually described as a fundamental quantity. Time can be combined mathematically with
other physical quantities to derive other concepts such as motion, kinetic energy and time-dependent
fields.