Important Vocabulary Terms for Motion
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Kinematics - Motion Vocabulary
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- AVERAGE SPEED
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- She ran 100 meters in 25 seconds.
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- So my average speed is 4 m/s!
- Average speed is calculated by dividing the total distance by the time taken to travel that distance.
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- STATIONARY
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- STOP
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- If an object is stationary, it is still and not moving.
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- TERMINAL VELOCITY
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- Terminal velocity is the maximum velocity reached by a falling object. This happens when an object’s weight is equal, but opposite, to the drag force.
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- Gradient
- The slope of a line on a graph. If the gradient is high then the line is steep
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- ACCELERATION
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- Acceleration is a measure of the rate of change of speed, measured in m/s2.