Picture #1:
• Acceleration: change in velocity compared with the time it takes to change
- Average Acceleration: (Final Velocity - Starting Velocity) / Time
• Velocity: expressed in meters per seconds (m/s)
• Time: expressed in seconds (s)
• Acceleration is measured in meters per second per second
- meters per second squared (m/s²)
Picture #2:
• Acceleration is a vector
- magnitude
- direction
• Acceleration: increases and decreases in speed
• Positive Acceleration: increase in speed
- sliding down from a hill
- small velocity -> large velocity
• Negative Acceleration: decrease in speed
- car slowing then
- high velocity -> low velocity
- initial velocity is larger than final velocity
- (v2 - v1) will be negative
- acceleration “a = (v2 - v1) / t” will be negative
• Acceleration and velocity (rate of motion) in the same direction = speed will increase.
• Acceleration and velocity in opposing directions = speed will decrease
Picture #3:
• Acceleration: rate at which velocity changes
• Velocity is a vector: has magnitude & direction
- magnitude or direction changes = the velocity changes
• Object accelerates speed = direction of motion or both magnitude and direction changes
• Acceleration depends on amount of time for the change to take place and how much velocity changes
- Small change in velocity can be a large change in acceleration if the change occurred quickly.
- Large change in velocity can be a small change in acceleration if the change occurred slowly.
- Increasing speed by 5 m/s in 5 seconds is smaller acceleration to increase speed by 5 m/s in 1 second.
Picture #4:
• An object changing the direction of motion experiences acceleration even when not speeding up or slowing down
• An object is always turning.
• Centripetal Acceleration: acceleration in circular mode.