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Category: Mechanics
Acceleration
Accelerating objects are changing their velocity - either the magnitude or the direction of the velocity. Acceleration is the rate...
Average vs. Instantaneous Speed
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Speed and Velocity
Speed, being a scalar quantity, is the rate at which an object covers distance. The average speed is the distance (a scalar quanti...
Distance and Displacement
Distance is a scalar quantity that refers to how much ground an object has covered during its motion. Displacement is a vector q...
Introduction to the Language of Kinematics
Kinematics is the science of describing the motion of objects. Such descriptions can rely on words, diagrams, graphs, mathematical...
Scalars and Vectors
All measurable quantities in Physics can fall into one of two broad categories - scalar quantities and vector quantities. A scalar...