ACTIVITY 1

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Objective:

After answering this activity, you should be able to describe the motion of an object using words,
diagrams or graphs.

 In this diagram, the positions of the car from police station are shown at equal intervals of time.
Observe and answer the following question.

Figure 1.

Guide Questions:

1. What is the initial position of the car? What is its final position?
2. What is the position of the car at 3 seconds?
3. At what time is the position of the car equal to 10 meters?

Fill it up using the data in Figure 1.

Table 1. Position of the car vs. time

Time (s) Position of the car (m)

0 0
Make a graph and plot the values in Table 1 as points on the graph. Then, draw a straight diagonal line
through the points in the graph. Note that time is plotted on the x-axis while position is plotted on the y-
axis.

Position vs. Time Graph

Guide Question:

1. What is the position of the car at 2.5 seconds?

2. At what time is the position of the car equal to 15.5 meters?
3. At what time will the car reach 20m?