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VelocityAccelera- tion GraphsFalling bodies Worth a Thousand words Mixed Bag
A 100 Velocity at any instant.
A 100 What is instantaneous?
A 200 It has a negative value in this direction.
A 200 What is westward (to the left of the origin)
A 300 It is a velocity that does not vary over time.
A 300 What is constant velocity?
A 400 This is used in velocity calculation, rather than distance.
A 400 What is displacement?
A 500 The is the equation for solving for average velocity.
A 500 What is change in position divide by a change in time?
Acceleration has direction and an amount or quantity referred to by this term. B 100
What is magnitude? B 100
Acceleration may be defined as the rate at which this changes over time. B 200
What is velocity?
B 300 Acceleration is said to take place if an object’s velocity or an object’s __?__ changes ( or both).
What is direction? B 300
Acceleration can be represented in meters per second per __?__. B 400
What is per second (m/s/s or m/s 2 )? B 400
If an object has negative velocity, and it is slowing down, then its acceleration is __?__ (negative or positive) B 500
What is positive? B 500
The motion of an object throughout a certain period of time, can be represented in this graph. C 100
What is the position- time graph (or distance- time graph, or displacement- time graph)? C 100
The distance-time graph (displacement-time graph) slope is necessary to produce this graph. C 200
What is the speed-time graph (velocity-time graph)? C 200
One of the graphs below demonstrates that a constant velocity is taking place. It is graph ___?___. C 300
What is graph “a”? C 300
DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager
The area under the acceleration graph can be used to produces this graph. C 400
What is the velocity-time graph? C 400
The object, whose velocity is represented in the graph below, is moving in a negative direction through this time interval. C 500
What is between 3 and 7 seconds? C 500
He stated that all bodies fall to Earth at the same rate. D 100
Who was Galileo? D 100
D 200 The feather hits the ground well after the hammer (on Earth) because of this.
What is air resistance? D 200
D 300 This is the numerical value of “g”.
D 300 What is m/s 2 (-32 ft/s 2 )?
The velocity of the ball is zero at this point? D 400
What is B? D 400
The displacement of the ball at A has this sign (negative or positive)? D 500
What is positive? D 500
The conditions that must be present in order for this to occur. E 100
What is a vacuum? E 100
The displacement of the skier at position D, after moving from A to B to C, (then finally to D) is __?__. E 200
What is 140 meters? E 200
At what time does a falling ball have a velocity equal in magnitude to the velocity it had when it was first thrown upward? E 300
What is between 2 and 2.25 seconds? E 300
The time interval in which the object is traveling with a negative displacement. E 400
What is between 3 and 4 seconds? E 400
In the velocity-time graph of a train, the portion of the graph that shows a positive velocity, but decreasing, while the acceleration is negative. E 500
What is part C? E 500
F 100 The meaning of the symbol below.
F 100 What is a change in (delta)?
F 200 Beside other physics discoveries, he is associated with gravity and falling apples
F 200 Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
F 300 A sky diver uses a parachute to decrease __?___ velocity, and land safely.
F 300 What is terminal velocity?
F 400 This quantity has a magnitude but no direction?
F 400 What is a scalar quantity?
F 500 A fixed position or set of coordinates that can be used to describe the motion of objects.
F 500 What is a frame of reference?
The Final Jeopardy Category is: Acceleration Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin
Click on screen to continue A rule of thumb for acceleration is that when an object is slowing down, the direction of the acceleration is ____?____ the direction of the object’s motion.
What is opposite? Click on screen to continue
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