Chapter 2 Motion
Now that you have a foundation in vectors, you will begin looking at your first major physics topic: motion.
Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Analyze translational motion using a motion diagram.
- Apply the particle model to analyze translational motion.
- Define average velocity.
- Define average acceleration.
- Define instantaneous velocity.
- Define instantaneous acceleration.
- Analyze motion in a position versus time graph.
- Draw a correlation between motion diagrams and position versus time graphs.
- Draw a velocity versus time and acceleration versus time graph from a position versus time graph and vice versa.
- Determine the sign of position, velocity and acceleration within a defined coordinate system.
- Determine position, distance, velocity and speed from graphs of position and velocity versus time.
- Make sense of a symbolic quantity using covariational reasoning.
