All About Motion: Displacement, Velocity and Acceleration

Synopsis: Suitable for GCSE students, this DVD introduces the concepts of vector and scalar quantities, displacement, velocity and acceleration. It deals with:

· Vectors - explains the difference between vector and scalar quantities, and demonstrates methods of representing vectors and arithmetic operations with vectors.

· Displacement - distance and displacement are defined and explained using the example of a road journey.

· Velocity - explains speed and velocity, and gives specific examples of their uses, including the special case of uniform circular motion.

· Acceleration - defined in terms of velocity change with time, including negative acceleration and an analysis of centripetal acceleration of a body moving in a circular path with constant speed.

· Acceleration on Galileo’s inclined planes - his experiment is demonstrated to show how to calculate acceleration on inclined planes.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2008
Subjects: Physics
Keywords: acceleration; motion (physics); velocity

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