Standard+5+Part+1+Motion


 * Standard 5, Part 1: Essential Questions **

1) What is distance? What is its base unit of measure? 2) What is displacement? What is its base unit of measure? 3) What is final displacement? 4) What is speed? What is its base unit of measure? 5) What is a rate? 6) What is instantaneous speed? What are some examples? 7) What is average speed? 8) What is velocity? What is its base unit of measure? 9) What are two ways that velocity can change? 10) What is instantaneous velocity? What are some examples? 11) What is average velocity? 12) What is the relationship between distance, time, direction, and the velocity of an object? 13) What is the formula for average speed? What is the formula for average velocity? 14) What do the terms initial and final represent when they are associated with any physical quantity?* 15) What do the variables in the formula v = d/t represent? 16) How do you identify given information in a problem? 17) How do you calculate average speed? 18) How do you calculate average velocity? 19) How do you determine total distance? 20) How do you determine total displacement? 21) Given speed/velocity and time, how do you solve for distance/displacement?

23) What are the characteristics of a constant velocity (or zero acceleration)? 24) What is acceleration? 25) What is the unit of measure for acceleration? 26) What are the ways that velocity can change (or, an object can experience an acceleration)? 27) What is a constant positive acceleration? 28) What is a constant negative acceleration? 29) What is acceleration due to a change in direction? 30) What is the difference between positive (+) and negative (-) acceleration? 31) How would you identify acceleration on a distance vs. time graph? What about a velocity vs. time graph?* 32) How would you solve for acceleration using the formula ? 33) What is dimensional analysis? 34) What does negative acceleration mean? 35) What causes objects to fall to Earth? 36) What do objects do as they fall to Earth? 37) What is the direction of gravitational force? 38) What is the direction of acceleration due to gravity (ag)? Why? 39) What is the initial velocity (vi) of an object dropped from rest? 40) What is the rate of acceleration due to gravity (ag) in the absence of air resistance? What does this mean? 41) What will stop the acceleration of an object due to gravity? 42) What are the two values that may be used for ag in calculations? Why? 43) How would you create a chart of initial and final velocities for an object in free fall for a given time interval? 44) What would be the displacement of an object in free fall for a given time interval?* 45) How would you construct a distance-time graph using data from selected types of motion (e.g., rest, constant velocity, acceleration)? 46) What would be the shape of a distance-time graph for selected types of motion? 47) How would you compare the relative motion of objects using distance-time graphs? 48) Given a graph of displacement vs. time, how would you describe the motion of the object represented? (Story graphs)

22) Given speed/velocity and distance/displacement, how do you solve for elapsed time (the time interval)?49) What does the steepness (slope) of a distance-time graph represent?