Learning Objectives for this Week

After going through this unit activities carefully, you should be able to

• Define position, displacement, and distance.
• Define and distinguish between vector and scalar quantities.
• Calculate velocity and speed given initial position, initial time, final position, and final time.
• Create and interpret a graph velocity vs. time and position vs. time.
• Define and calculate acceleration.
• Apply problem-solving strategies to solve problems of one-dimensional kinematics.

What type of motion is on the picture? 

Image credit: Soukupova, P. (2008). Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kola.GIF