This document discusses instantaneous velocity and graphs of motion. It explains that instantaneous velocity is the velocity of an object at a particular moment in time. Ancient Greeks questioned whether motion was real or just an illusion. Isaac Newton developed calculus to solve questions about motion. One way to find instantaneous velocity is from a graph of displacement versus time. When acceleration is constant, the kinematic equations can be used to find velocity at any time. The document also describes how graphs of displacement, velocity, and acceleration use perpendicular axes with time as the independent variable on the horizontal axis.
This document discusses instantaneous velocity and graphs of motion. It explains that instantaneous velocity is the velocity of an object at a particular moment in time. Ancient Greeks questioned whether motion was real or just an illusion. Isaac Newton developed calculus to solve questions about motion. One way to find instantaneous velocity is from a graph of displacement versus time. When acceleration is constant, the kinematic equations can be used to find velocity at any time. The document also describes how graphs of displacement, velocity, and acceleration use perpendicular axes with time as the independent variable on the horizontal axis.
This document discusses instantaneous velocity and graphs of motion. It explains that instantaneous velocity is the velocity of an object at a particular moment in time. Ancient Greeks questioned whether motion was real or just an illusion. Isaac Newton developed calculus to solve questions about motion. One way to find instantaneous velocity is from a graph of displacement versus time. When acceleration is constant, the kinematic equations can be used to find velocity at any time. The document also describes how graphs of displacement, velocity, and acceleration use perpendicular axes with time as the independent variable on the horizontal axis.
As we all know that instantaneous speed is the speed of an object at a
particular moment in time. To have a better zero the instantaneous velocity must smaller displacement or shorter time interval. It made some ancient Greek question whether motion have meaning at all, they even wondered that motion was just an illusion. But Isaac Newton developed the way to do math that to figure out to types of questions and that’s why Newton invented calculus. One way we can find the instantaneous velocity by looking the motion of an x- versus-t graph. But if the acceleration is constant we can use the formula for kinetic to find out the instantaneous velocity, v at any time, t. This section uses graphs of displacement, velocity, and acceleration versus time to illustrate one-dimensional kinematics. The graphs in this text have perpendicular axes, one horizontal and the other vertical. When two physical quantities are plotted against one another in such a graph, the horizontal axis is usually considered to be an independent variable and the vertical axis a dependent variable. Time is usually an independent variable that other quantities, such as displacement, depend upon. A graph of displacement versus time would, thus, have x on the vertical axis and t on the horizontal axis.