alleryStart learning →Kinematics is the branch of physics that studies motion in what way?
ABy tracking the mass of the moving object
BBy measuring only the forces that produce it
CBy comparing the energy before and after it
DWithout considering the causes of the motion
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Without considering the causes of the motion
1. Physics opens its study of motion with kinematics, named before any talk of forces.
2. Kinematics describes how an object moves: its position, distance, speed, and direction.
3. It does not ask what pushed or pulled the object to make it move that way.
_Source: OpenStax Physics (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 "Motion in One Dimension", section 2.1 Relative Motion, Distance, and Displacement_
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