1. Motion Notes
Mr. Borushko
Science 8

2. Activity Choose and object in the classroom
Write down a description in your notebook of where that object is located. Not what it looks like!
Read your description to your classmate and see if he/she can guess what the object is.
Try giving directions until your classmate can guess the object.

3. Motion
What is motion?
When an object changes position over time when compared to a reference point.

4. Motion What is a reference point?   +  
The object that appears to stay in place that we compare motion to.

5. Motion What is speed? How fast or slow an object is moving
Speed=distance
time
Units m/s

6. Motion
Important equations
S=d/t (m/s)
d=s x t (m)
t=d/s (s)

7. Motion
How do we graph speed?
Constant speed
Distance (m)
Time (s)

8. Motion
Graphing con’t.
Changing speed

9. Motion
Graphing con’t.
Changing speed-speeding up

10. Motion
Graphing con’t.
Changing speed-slowing down

11. Motion
What is average speed?
Average speed=
Total distance
Total time

12. Read pg. 9-14
Main Idea
Details

13. Motion What is velocity? How does velocity change?
Speed in a direction
Units m/s
Speed up, slow down, change direction

14. Motion What is acceleration? Change in velocity over time
Units m/s/s or m/s2
Acceleration=change in V
change in t
a=Vf-Vs
tf-ts