Starter Questions

Wednesday:
The graph depicts the speed of two vehicles:
1. Which line graph is the faster one?
2. Which line graph is the slower one?
A
B
Velocity
V = velocity (meters/second)
d = distance (meters)
t = time (seconds)
d
V =
t
speed of an object in a
certain direction.
How much time will it
take a car driving a
velocity of 50 miles/hr
east to drive 300
miles?

(Remember: t = v/d)
How would you describe the motion of
floating balloons?
Do they move in a constant speed or
direction?
The movement of a balloon
is a great example of an object
Accelerating!
What is Acceleration?
A: The rate at which velocity changes!




In other words: How fast something speeds
up, slows down, or even changes direction.
(See Figure 7 pg.325)
Speeding up: Slowing down:
Changing direction:
You probably think it simply means to speed up. Well yes, and a bit more:
Uniform Circular Motion
Figure 9 pg 329
Would a windmill traveling in a circle at a
constant speed be accelerating?




Direction; Are you accelerating, now?

http://www.pbs.org/opb/circus/classroom/circus-physics/activity-guide-centripetal-acceleration/

Acceleration
how quickly velocity changes
over time.
A =
(V
final
- V
initial
)
time
___________
Acceleration = A change in Velocity
] [
] [
2
s
m
Time
Velocity
on Accelerati

T A
V
You already learned the
Velocity equation:
Here is the equation for Acceleration:
] [
] [
s
m
Time
ce tan Dis
Velocity
Means change
Question
During a race, a runners velocity
increases from 0 m/s to 4 m/s over a
period of 2 s. What is the bicycles
average acceleration during this period?

a= 4m/s-2m/s = ________m/s/s
2s

Constant Velocity
1 2 3 4 5
A characteristic of constant velocity is
that all distances between seconds are
the same.
Time [Sec]
D
i
s
t
a
n
c
e

[
m
]

1s slow
1.2m
2s slow
2.4m
3s slow
3.6m
0


1


2


3


4


5

6


Question
What would the graph look like for a car
slowing down to a stop?

Time
Interpreting Acceleration on a Graph
5 m
15 m
10 m
15 s 10 s 5 s
D
i
s
t
a
n
c
e

D
i
s
t
a
n
c
e

Positive
Acceleration in a
negative direction
Negative
Acceleration in a
Positive direction
Flat line = No
velocity, so no
acceleration
http://onlinelearningexchange.com/texas_demo/grade8.html

Question
What kind of graph will a negative
acceleration produce?

Time
Interpreting Acceleration on a Graph
5 m
15 m
10 m
15 s 10 s 5 s
D
i
s
t
a
n
c
e

D
i
s
t
a
n
c
e

Positive
Acceleration in a
negative direction
Negative
Acceleration in a
Positive direction
Flat line = No
velocity from the
POR
Lesson Extensions
Falling Pumpkins
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mm
edia/vectors/mzs.cfm
http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/velocit
y-acceleration.html
http://dev.physicslab.org/Document.aspx?
doctype=5&filename=Kinematics_Uniform
AccelerationVelocityTimeGraphs1.xml
Simon Says Accelerate
Acceleration
With Acceleration, Notice the difference
of distance with the red acceleration lines
between each second?
1sec
1.0m
2sec
3m
1
2