Monday, June 20, 2011

Unit Three: Acceleration so far.....


So far in physics, we've learned that acceleration is the change in velocity over the change in time. The units are meters over seconds divided by seconds (m/s^2). With acceleration we learned about three kinematic equations:
d = 1/2at^2+Vot
V = Vo+at
Vo^2+2ad
The variables are:
d = distance (x) (y) meters
V = final velocity m/s
Vo = original/initial velocity m/s
a = acceleration m/s^2
t = time s (seconds)

To be very honest I don't know much or understand much about the equations, but I do understand the difference between acceleration and force. Acceleration is as I stated above and force is not acceleration but the amount of power to increase the initial velocity and/or acceleration. I don't have anything to show acceleration other than a video I created to display the process I took to create one of my drawings. I accelerated the speed of the video footage so I could fit everything in it. So here's the video…..

2 comments:

  1. I like how you differentiated between force and acceleration because I didn't understand the difference between them. C:

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  2. thank you Ari, haha your C: looks like a c and a period.

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