PHYS 17200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gmail, Yy1, Portable Document Format

What is the relationship between displacement, velocity, and acceleration?

Define displacement, velocity and acceleration.

For a simple harmonic oscillator, which of the following pairs of vector quantities can't both point in the same direction? ( The position vector is the displacement from equilibrium.)

(a) position and velocity

(b) velocity and acceleration

(c) position and acceleration