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1.3 Acceleration

This document discusses acceleration, velocity, and displacement based on position-time graphs and velocity-time graphs. It contains the following key points: 1) Acceleration and graphs can show the relationship between velocity and time or position and time. Average acceleration is change in velocity over time. 2) Motion with uniform velocity results in zero net displacement, while non-uniform velocity can result in non-zero displacement as shown by the area under the velocity-time graph. 3) Instantaneous velocity is the velocity at an instant in time as shown by the tangent line on a velocity-time graph, while average velocity is the total displacement over the total time.

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1.3 Acceleration

This document discusses acceleration, velocity, and displacement based on position-time graphs and velocity-time graphs. It contains the following key points: 1) Acceleration and graphs can show the relationship between velocity and time or position and time. Average acceleration is change in velocity over time. 2) Motion with uniform velocity results in zero net displacement, while non-uniform velocity can result in non-zero displacement as shown by the area under the velocity-time graph. 3) Instantaneous velocity is the velocity at an instant in time as shown by the tangent line on a velocity-time graph, while average velocity is the total displacement over the total time.

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SPH3U: 1.

3 Acceleration

1. Acceleration and graphs


Acceleration:
velocity-time graph
position-time graph

Position-Time Graph Type of Motion Example


2. Determining acceleration from a velocity-time graph

Average acceleration:

What is the acceleration of the skateboard in the figure above? Consider the motion
between 0 s and 10 s.

When a rifle is fired, the rifle bullet accelerates from rest to 120 m/s [E] in 1.3 x 10 -2 s as it
travels down the rifle’s barrel. What is the bullet’s average acceleration?

When a hockey player hits a hockey puck with his stick, the velocity of the puck changes
from 8.0 m/s [N] to 10.0 m/s [S] over a time interval of 0.050 s. What is the acceleration of
the puck?

A racehorse takes 2.70 s to accelerate from a trot to a gallop. If the horse’s initial velocity is
3.61 m/s [W] and it experiences an acceleration of 2.77 m/s 2 [W], what is the racehorse’s
velocity when it gallops?
3. Motion with uniform and non-uniform velocity

Area under a v-t graph:

What is the displacement represented by the graph above?

What is the displacement represented by the graph below over the time interval from 0 s to
10.0 s?
4. Instantaneous velocity and average velocity

Uniform acceleration:
average velocity

instantaneous velocity

tangent

Consider the point on the curve in the figure above at 2.0 s on the x-axis. What is the
instantaneous velocity of the object at this time?

What is the average velocity of the object in the figure above over the time interval from 0.0
s to 2.0 s?

Homework: page 30: #4-8, 11

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