Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

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Displacement, velocity, acceleration

Kinemetics is the description of motion; it concerns only the accurate description of the positions of objects, and the change in their positions. It does not deal with the sources of their motion; we'll discuss dynamicsin a few weeks.
Position is where an object happens to be. It can be expressed as a point in the x,y plane.

Displacement is a vector which points from the initial position of an object to its final position. The standard units of displacement are meters. Velocity is a vector which shows the direction and rate of motion. The standard units of velocity are meters per second. Speed and velocity are not the same thing speed is a scalar, whereas velocity is a vector. !ne must use different rules when combining speeds and combining velocities. The average velocity of an object is the total displacement during some e"tended period of time, divided by that period of time. Instantaneous velocity, on the other hand, describes the motion of a body at one particular moment in time. Acceleration is a vector which shows the direction and magnitude of changes in velocity. Its standard units are meters per second per second, or meters per second s#uared. $verage acceleration is the total change in velocity %magnitude and direction& over some e"tended period of time, divided by the duration of that period. Instantaneous acceleration is the rate and direction at which the velocity of an object is changing at one particular moment. In everyday 'nglish, we use the term decelerate to describe the slowing of a body, but physicists use the word accelerate to denote both positive and negative changes in speed.

(iewgraphs )hat is different of distance and displacement* In the formula of velocity, why use a displacement but did not use the distance* +lease,describe about accelation*

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