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Learning Objectives-2: Uniform Motion

This document provides an overview of uniformly accelerated motion and free fall motion. It defines uniform motion as having constant velocity, while uniformly accelerated motion has constant acceleration or a constant change in velocity. Examples of uniformly accelerated motion include a cat running at a constant acceleration and an airplane accelerating down a runway. The document also describes free fall motion as vertically moving objects that are falling due to gravity alone without air resistance. It provides sample problems calculating velocity, displacement, distance, and maximum height for objects in free fall motion or accelerating uniformly.

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Learning Objectives-2: Uniform Motion

This document provides an overview of uniformly accelerated motion and free fall motion. It defines uniform motion as having constant velocity, while uniformly accelerated motion has constant acceleration or a constant change in velocity. Examples of uniformly accelerated motion include a cat running at a constant acceleration and an airplane accelerating down a runway. The document also describes free fall motion as vertically moving objects that are falling due to gravity alone without air resistance. It provides sample problems calculating velocity, displacement, distance, and maximum height for objects in free fall motion or accelerating uniformly.

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Learning Objectives-2

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:

1. Convert a verbal description of a physical situation involving uniform


acceleration in one dimension into a mathematical description,
2. Recognize whether or not a physical situation involves constant velocity or
constant acceleration.

Uniformly Accelerated Motion


UNIFORM MOTION
     Types of Uniform Motion:
              A. Uniform motion
                            -   motion with constant velocity
              B. Uniformly Accelerated Motion
                            -   motion with constant acceleration
 

UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED MOTION


 motion with constant acceleration or motion with constant change in velocity
Sample Problem 1
A cat starting from rest runs at a rate of 3m/s2. Find
(a) the cat’s velocity at the end of 4 seconds

(b) the displacement after 4 seconds; and

(c) the distance covered during the 4th second


Sample Problem 2
As an engineer, you were asked to design a runway for an airport. An
airplane that will use this airfield must reach a speed of 30.0 m/s before
takeoff and should accelerate at 2.00 m/s2.
(a) How much time does it take this airplane to reach the takeoff speed?
(b) What must be the minimum length of the runway for the aircraft to reach
this speed?

Free Fall Motion

 The most familiar example of uniformly accelerated motion is that of a freely


falling object.
 If air resistance is ignored, a falling body picks up a speed at the rate of
about 9.8 m/s2 (980 cm/s2 or 32ft/s2). This is called the acceleration due to
gravity (g).
 The vertical movement of a body thrown into the air or falling through the air
is called free fall motion.
 To say something is freely falling is to say it is falling free of opposing forces
of any kind, usually air resistance. The only force that acts on an object is the
force of gravity.

**Take note, in solving free fall, we will use the orientation that the acceleration due to gravity
going downwards is positive.

Sample Problem 1-2


For a stone dropped from rest, compute its (a) velocity
(b) displacement for the first 3 seconds from dropping.

Sample Problem 2-2


How high will a body rise that is projected vertically upward with a speed of
100 ft/s? How long will it take for the body to reach its maximum height?
References
 Bawang, E. G. et al. 2012. General Physics Lecture Manual. Benguet State
University. La Trinidad, Benguet.
 Silva, D. D. ND. General Physics Manual. Saint Louis University. Baguio City.
 Arevalo, R. L. 2017. General Physics 1. DIWA Learning Systems Inc. Makati
City, Philippines
 https://www.intmath.com/vectors/7-vect (Links to an external site.)ors-in-3d-
space.php

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