Activity 75: Interpreting Motion Graphs Warm up: what is the speed of a airplane moving 15,600 km in 12 hours? What is the velocity of a bird migrating from Ohio to Florida that can fly 150 miles in a day?
First Unit E Quiz! Your first quiz for this unit will be on Tuesday! Quiz is over Activities Worth points No notecard or notes, please study!
Activity 74 Analysis Questions
Activity 74 In Case You Missed It..
Velocity is the measurement of the speed and direction of an object. Units are also MPH, kph, or m/s, but the direction is included. Examples: a car moving east at 45 MPH, a bee flying left at 15 m/s
Activity 74 In Case You Missed It.. When can velocity equal zero? When distance/displacement is zero. An object can travel, but if it returns to where it started, the velocity is zero. This is because the distance is technically “zero.”
Displacement Notes Velocity measures speed and how much the object was displaced. Displacement: the moving of something from its place or position. It is how far an object is from its original position. Displacement does not always equal the total distance!
Displacement Notes Displacement example: a car starts at a given point, travels east 2 miles, travels south 4 miles, west a mile, north 4 miles, and west another mile, what was the total displacement?
Displacement Notes Displacement example: if Ms. Pyle starts in her room, walks next door to talk to Mrs. Kraft (2 meters north) gets something from the printer (4 meters north), and goes to Mr. Treadway to give a paper to him (6 meters north). The trip takes her 10 min. What was her total velocity?
New Velocity Definition!
Activity 75: Interpreting Motion Graphs Please open your books to page E12.
Activity 75: Interpreting Motion Graphs Focus: how can you use a graph to determine the acceleration or deceleration of an object?
Activity 75: Interpreting Motion Graphs When you measured the speed of the cart in Activity 74, was the cart moving at the same speed the whole time? It started at 0 m/s, increased to its top speed, then slowed down again. You measured its average speed. Instantaneous speed is measured at one given moment. Think of a speedometer.
Activity 75: Interpreting Motion Graphs In this activity, you will analyze graphs of distance versus time that show motion over a whole trip, as opposed to determining an average speed over a trip. The graph will show the speed of the car moving at each individual part of its journey.
Activity 75: Interpreting Motion Graphs How do you describe the slope of a line? What do the changes in a distance vs. time graph mean?
Activity 75: Interpreting Motion Graphs With your partner, determine which “trip strips” go with the different parts of Teasha and Josh’s commute to school. Every change in slope will have a “trip strip” to go with it!
Activity 75: Interpreting Motion Graphs
Are Teasha and Josh’s graphs realistic? Do cars usually change speed instantaneously? What would the graphs below be showing?
Activity 75: Interpreting Motion Graphs An object accelerates if it has a change in speed or a change in direction. Therefore, it is a change in velocity. A car speeding up or taking a turn is accelerating. Technically, acceleration refers to all changes in motion whether it is speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction. An object decelerates when an object slows down. Deceleration is a type of acceleration that only refers to slowing down.
Tonight’s Homework Complete Activity 75 analysis questions #2 is the UC assessment! Scoring Guide in OneNote Due Wednesday, 4/6. Study for quiz on Monday! Give parents Kings Island Permission slip!
Kings Island Information! We are going to Kings Island on May 20 th for our physics field trip! While we are there, you will be walking around with groups and completing a packet. Packet is for a grade; probably points and due at the end of the trip.
Kings Island Information! Dates to note for Kings Island: Friday, April 29 th : all permission slips and money are due to Ms. Pyle Monday, May 16 th : 1” binder turned in to Ms. Pyle as well as season pass if you have one.