Match each quantity to its meaning
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Kinematics
- Right
- Motion studied without its causes
- Left
- Displacement
- Right
- Change in position, with direction
- Left
- Distance
- Right
- Total length of the path taken
- Left
- Elapsed time
- Right
- End time minus the start time
- Left
- Deceleration
- Right
- Acceleration opposing the motion
- Instructions
- Tap a quantity on the left, then tap its meaning on the right.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax College Physics for AP(R) Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 'Kinematics', sections 2.1-2.8_