Introduction to Diagrams Throughout The Physics Classroom Tutorial, there is a persistent appeal to your…

Since acceleration is a vector quantity, it has a direction associated with it. The direction of…

The average acceleration (a) of any object over a given interval of time (t) can…

Sometimes an accelerating object will change its velocity by the same amount each second. As…

The final mathematical quantity discussed in Lesson 1 is acceleration. An often confused quantity, acceleration…

Since a moving object often changes its speed during its motion, it is common to…

As an object moves, it often undergoes changes in speed. For example, during an average…

Velocity is a vector quantity that refers to "the rate at which an object changes its position." Imagine…

Just as distance and displacement have distinctly different meanings (despite their similarities), so do speed…

Distance and displacement are two quantities that may seem to mean the same thing yet…