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Chapter 1

Kinematics

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will:

●learn the difference between displacement and distance

●learn the difference between speed and velocity

●learn the concept of acceleration

●learn how to analyse graphs describing motion

●learn how to solve motion problems using the equations for constant acceleration

●learn how to describe the motion of a projectile

●gain a qualitative understanding of the effects of a fluid resistance force on motion

●gain an understanding of the concept of terminal speed.

GUIDING questions

●Which equations are used to describe the motion of an object?

●How does graphical analysis help us to describe motion?