Phy: Study of Motion
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| mechanics | study of motion of objects
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| kinematics | science of describing the motion of objects using words, diagrams, numbers, graphs, and equations
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| scalars | quantities that are fully described by a magnitude or a numerical value alone
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| vectors | quantities that are fully described by both a magnitude and a direction
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| distance | scalar quantity that refers to "how much ground an object has covered" during its motion.
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| displacement | a vector quantity that refers to "how far out of place an object is": it is the object's overall change in position.
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| speed | scalar quantity that refers to "how fast an object is moving."
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| velocity | vector quantity that refers to "the rate at which an object changes its position."
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| instantaneous speed | the speed at any given instant in time
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| average speed | the average of all instantaneous speeds
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| acceleration | a vector quantity that is defined as the rate at which an object changes its velocity
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| constant acceleration | the velocity is changing by a constant amount each second.
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