BELL WORK

1. Find your seat and put your stuff into the

cubbie hole for your table

2. Take out a pen or pencil
3. Get your Solving for Acceleration, Speed,
and Velocity paper from the front lab table

Relationsh
i p s b e t we
en
Speed, Ve
lo c i t y , a n d
Accelerati
on

Motion
0 It is a change in position
0 Reference Point: the point from which all

motion will be compared to.

Distance
0 Distance: is measured as the length of a path

between 2 points. Short distances are usually

measured with meters and long with
Kilometers.
0 Units: meters, kilometers, centimeters,

miles, inches

Displacement
0 Displacement is how far an object travels

from where it started.

0 It includes the direction: ( North(N),

South(S), East(E), West(W))

0 Units: meters, kilometers, centimeters,
miles, inches

Distance VS. Displacement

0 Watch the Video
0 On your notesheet explain the difference

Speed
0 SPEED is the amount an object

travels in a certain amount of time.

0 Units: m/s, km/s, m/hr, km/hr,

mi/hr

0 There are 3 different kinds of

speed
0 Instantaneous Speed: the rate of

motion at any given instant

0 Constant Speed: speed that
doesn't vary
0 Average Speed: the total distance
traveled by the total time of travel

A speedometer
registers
instantaneous speed

Average Speed
0 Average speed is calculated over the entire trip

that one takes.

0 Ratio of the total distance traveled to the total

elapsed time
0 The equation can be written using quantity symbols

Velocity
0 Velocity: is the description of both speed and

direction of motion.
0 A change in velocity can result from a change

in speed or direction or a change in both

speed and direction.
0 Units: m/s, km/s, m/hr, km/hr, mi/hr

Speed VS Velocity
0 Watch the Video
0 On your notesheet explain the difference

Acceleration
0 Means to speed up, slows down or change

direction
0 Units: m/s2 , km/s2, m/min2 , km/min2,
m/hr2 , m/hr2
0 Positive acceleration: acceleration that is in the

same direction as velocity

0 Negative Acceleration: acceleration that is the

opposite direction as velocity (AKA deceleration)

Velocity VS Acceleration
0 Acceleration and velocity are different

quantities.
0 Going fast does not imply accelerating quickly.

The two quantities are independent of one

another.

0 Acceleration and Velocity have very different

units
0 Remember the formula for Acceleration!

REVIEW!!

Relationsh
ips betwe
en
Speed, Ve
locity, and
Accelerati
on
GRAPHING

Reading Graphs
0
are a visual way to represent
0Graphs

data.
0 The slope of a line is the rise (change
along the y dimension) divided by the
run (change along the x dimension)
0 The slope can tell you different

information from each graph

0 The Greed letter delta, is often

used in science to mean a change

in
0 When interpreting graphs, you must
always check to see if the y-axis
represents distance, velocity, or
acceleration
0 A horizontal line has very different

meanings if the graph is a d-t graph, a

v-t graph, or an a-t graph

Distance Time Graphs

0 Notice that time is on the

x-axis and distance is on

the y-axis.
0 By reading the
coordinates on the graph,
you can see that the
automobile reached the
50 mi position at the end
of 1 h; the 100 mi
position at the end of 2 h;
and the 150 mi position at
the end of 3 h.

Distance- Time Graphs

0 When an object is moving at a steady velocity the line on the graph

will move up or down in a straight line.

0 Notice that the slope of the graph indicates the speed of the person.
0 The faster an object travels the steeper the line.
0 A slow speed has a gradual slope.
0 No motion has zero slope.
0 Constant acceleration has a curved slope

0 The graph of a person at rest is a horizontal line with a slope of zero

representing a speed of zero.

0 The slope of the tangent line (straight line that touches a curve in only
one part) gives instantaneous speed

Acceleration on DistanceTime Graphs

0 Heres how I used to remember if it

waspositiveornegativeacceleration on a
d-t graph.

Distance-Time Graphs
0 Graph B: A person is traveling at

a slow speed. As time increases,

there is a small change in the
position.
0 Graph C: A person is traveling at
a fast speed. As time increases,
there is a greater change in the
position.
0 Graph D: A person is traveling in
the opposite direction of the
person in the previous graphs. As
time passes, the change in
position is in the opposite
direction.
0 Graph E: A person is changing
speed. As time passes, the
Graph A: A person is at rest. As time
change in position is increasing
increases, there is no change in the
for each second. Notice that a
position of the person. The person is
changing speed is a curve on a
standing still.
distance-time graph.

Velocity- Time Graphs

0 Notice that time is on the

x-axis and velocity is on

the y-axis.
0 On a velocitytimegraphthe slope
equalsacceleration.
0 The "y" intercept equals
theinitialvelocity.
0 In these graphs, higher
meansfasternot farther.

Velocity Time Graphs

0 On avelocity-timegraph
0 straight lines implyunchangingacceleration.
0 curved lines implychangingacceleration.
0 an object undergoingconstantaccelerationtraces a straight line.
0 positive slope implies anincrease in velocity in the positive
direction.
0 negative slope implies anincrease in velocity in the negative
direction.
0 zero slope implies motion withconstantvelocity.
0 the area under the curve equals thechangeindisplacement.
Acceleration

Acceleration- Time
Graphs
0 Notice that time is on

the x-axis and

acceleration is on the
y-axis.
0 On a accelerationtimegraphthe slope
equalsvelocity.

Acceleration- Time
Graphs
0 Slope is meaningless.
0 When acceleration is constant, the acceleration-

time curve is a horizontal line.

0 A Line represents
0 the motion with increasing speed when it goes up
0 the motion with decreasing speed when it goes down

Speeding Up
Constant
Acceleration
Slowing Down