1. How do we describe motion?

2. Objectives Objectives:
Understand the difference between vector and scalar quantities
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Average Speed

3. Scalar quantities versus vector quantities
Scalar quantities have a size
(or magnitude) only.
Eg: Speed of the car was 60km/h
Vector quantities have both size (magnitude) and direction.
Eg: The boat sailed 30km north.

4. How do we draw a vector? As an arrow !!
the length of the arrow represents the size of the vector
The direction the arrow points indicates the direction of the vector!
When we draw vectors we need to include a reference direction and a scale (e.g. 1cm = 1km) N
4.3km North East

5. Distance and Displacement

6. Distance Displacement is a scalar quantity!
is how far something has moved.
is measured in metres etc.
Displacement
is a vector quantity.
is how far an object has moved from its starting point and in what direction.
measured in metres but also has a direction.
is the (straight line) distance between 2 points with the direction given too!

7. If the bear skis the 7 metres to the tree then back to the start and then all the way to the house, what distance would he have gone? _______m

8. What would his displacement from the starting point be
What would his displacement from the starting point be ? ___________ m in an easterly direction.

9. Speed and velocity

10. Speed is a scalar quantity!
It is how fast something has travelled
It is measured in metres/second or km/hour.
Velocity is a vector quantity.
This is how fast and in what direction something travels IN A STRAIGHT LINE!!!
This is measured in m/s or km/h but also has a direction.

11. Speed = 150 km/ 2 h = 75km/h Or write it like this: = 75 km h ⁻¹
If a car travels 150 km in 2 hours then calculate the average speed of the car:
Average Speed = distance travelled/ time
= d/t
= 150 km/ 2 h
= 75km/h
Or write it like this:
= 75 km h ⁻¹

12. Velocity = 480 km/ 2 h South = 240km/h South Or write it like this:
If a plane travels 480 km in a southerly direction for 2 hours then calculate the average velocity of the plane:
Average velocity= distance travelled in a straight line time
Vav = s/t
= 480 km/ 2 h South
= 240km/h South
Or write it like this:
= 240 km h ⁻¹ South

13. How do we convert a speed or velocity from km/h to m/s or the other way around?
How many metres in a km? 1000m.
How many seconds in an hour? Mmmmm, a bit harder…
60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour so
60 x 60 = 3600 seconds in an hour.
1km/hr = 1000/3600 m/s
75km/h = 75 x 1000/3600 m/s = 20.8 m/s
10m/s = 10 x 3600/1000 km/h = 36km/h

14. km h-1 m s-1 A different way of writing these:
You are used to seeing “kilometres per hour”
written as km/h but it is written ‘scientifically’ in the form:
km h-1
And metres per second can be written as m/s or better still:
m s-1

15. A canoe travels a distance of 500 m in 100 sec
A canoe travels a distance of 500 m in 100 sec.  What is the canoe's speed?
speed = d/t
A second canoe travels a distance of 200 meters in 40 seconds.  What is this canoe's speed?  

16. Remember that if an object is going at a constant speed but changes direction (turns) then its velocity changes!!

17. All these abbreviations – what do they stand for
All these abbreviations – what do they stand for???!!! d = distance s = displacement t = time v= velocity or final velocity u = initial velocity a = acceleration

18. Acceleration Acceleration is a vector quantity.
When an object increases velocity (speeds up) we say that it is accelerating.
When an object is slowing down we say it has negative acceleration, deceleration or retardation.

19. How do we calculate acceleration (negative or positive)
How do we calculate acceleration (negative or positive)? Acceleration = final velocity – initial velocity time Units = m/s2 or m s-2 or metres per second per second. a = v – u t a = acceleration, v = final velocity, u = initial velocity, t = time.

20. Now lets try an example. A B At point A , the bike is going at 10 ms-1 , 5 seconds later at point B , the bike is going at 45 ms-1 What acceleration does the bike have between A and B? a = (v – u)/ t = (45 – 10) / 5 = 35/5 = 7 ms-2 . Which means it is speeding up: each second it goes 7 m/s faster than the second before!

21. Now lets try another example
Now lets try another example. C D At point C , the bike is going at 45 ms-1 , 10 seconds later at point D , the bike is going at 20 ms-1 What acceleration does the bike have between C and D? a = (v – u)/ t = (20 – 45) / 10 = -25/10 = ms-2 . Which means it is slowing down: each second it goes 2.5 m/s slower than the second before!

22. A B
At A the camel has a velocity of 3 m/s, it accelerates at 2m/s². What is its velocity 4 seconds later at B?
a = (v – u) t
So rearrange: v = u + at
= 3 +(2 x 4)
= 3 + 8
= 11 m/s

23. If we took photos of the camel at 1 second intervals before he started accelerating, the series of pictures would look like this: t=1s t=2s t=3s t=4s t=5s Notice that the intervals between the positions are equal. This is because the camel was going at a constant velocity (no acceleration!!!)

24. (She starts accelerating at t = 1 seconds.)
We now take photos of a runner at 1 second intervals with an initial velocity of 2m/s and acceleration of 1m/s/s.
(She starts accelerating at t = 1 seconds.)
distance in metres
Notice that the intervals between the positions are increasing by 1 m each second. This is because the runner was accelerating at 1m/s/s. (Is this a realistic acceleration?)

25. Where s = displacement, t = time, u= initial velocity
Another equation!!!
Sometimes we need to work out how far an object has moved – or been displaced - when all we know is its initial velocity, final velocity and acceleration!!!
To work this out we use this equation:
s = ut + ½ at2
Where s = displacement, t = time, u= initial velocity
and a = acceleration.

26. Notice that we can rearrange this equation and use it to work out other things such as initial velocity! Lets look at an example: A thief jumps in out of a window and lands on a taxi going past. The taxi driver gets a fright and accelerates at 7m/s/s. If the taxi takes 4 seconds to travel 90 metres before crashing into a vegetable cart, what was its initial velocity when the thief landed on it?

27. What do we know. s = 90 m, t = 4 s, a = 7m/s2, u =
What do we know? s = 90 m, t = 4 s, a = 7m/s2, u = ? Rearrange: s = ut + ½ at2 u = (s – ½ at2) / t u = (90 – ½ x 7 x42) / 4 u = 8.5m/s

28. NOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You will have a test on this first section of physics on ___________!!!

29. Motion graphs
It is often easier to show the motion of an object with a graph rather than with words.
There are 2 types of graph we will look at:
Displacement– time graphs (or distance – time graphs.)
Velocity - time graphs (or speed- time graphs.)

30. With both types of graph, time is plotted on the x axis.
The further to the right along the x axis we go – the longer the time from the start!
Velocity, distance etc are always plotted on the y axis.
We assume the initial direction of motion to be positive.

31. A body at rest. Ie it is stopped or standing still!
Distance (m)
A body at rest. Ie it is stopped or standing still!
time (s)

32. An object moving at constant speed.
Constant speed because the lines are straight!
Which line shows the object going fastest?
Distance (m)
time (s)

33. Speed is given in m/s so we can work out the speed here by saying speed = rise/run = distance/time.
Work it out for each.
Distance (m)
time (s)

34. A body accelerating!
You can see that the speed is increasing: the distance travelled is more each second so this shows it is accelerating!!
Distance (m)
time (s)

35. Lets look at an example: First we will give the information in words then as a displacement – time graph. Mark starts from point A and travels at 2m/s for 3 seconds to point B. He then stops at point B for 4 seconds before going back towards point A at an initial velocity of -1.5m/s for 2 seconds then stopping at an intersection for 1 second before continuing to point A at -1.5 m/s. Ok – lets look at this graphically!!!!!

36. Much Easier than words!!! Marks’ trip 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Distance (m)
Marks’ trip
time (s)

37. This axis has SPEED not distance on it!!!!
Speed (m/s)
What is the difference between this graph and the ones we looked at before??
time (s)

38. So what does this graph show?
Speed (m/s)
It shows that the object is moving at a constant speed of 5.5m/s
time (s)

39. What does this graph show?
Speed (m/s)
It shows that the objects’ speed is increasing or the object is accelerating!
time (s)

40. What does this graph show?
Speed (m/s)
It shows that the objects’ speed is decreasing or the object is decelerating!
time (s)

41. Which line shows faster acceleration? Green or blue?
Acceleration = speed/time so
Blue = 3m/s/s
Green = 1m/s/s
Steeper slope = faster acceleration!
Speed (m/s)
time (s)

42. Putting it all together:
Speed (m/s)
Steady speed
Fast deceleration Or
negative acceleration
Fast accn
Slow accn
time (s)

43. What other information can we get from displacement – time and speed time graphs?
Speed (m/s)
Distance (m)
Time (s)
Time (s)
Gradient = rise/run = 7/7 = 1m/s/s = acceleration!!! Area under the graph = ½ time x speed
= s x m/s
= m
= distance travelled!!!
Gradient = rise/run
= 30/6
= 5m/s
= speed!

44. Lets look at the last example and work out the distance travelled.

45. Work out the area under the line to work out the distance travelled
Speed (m/s)
time (s)

46. The end…..
Test Time!! 