PHYA11H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Concepts of Motion

• School: UTSC
• Department: Physics and Astrophysics
• Course: PHYA11H3
• Professor: Salam Tawfiq

Document Summary

Translational motion: an object moves through space: four basic types of motion: linear motion, circular motion, projectile motion, and rotational motion. Motion: the change of an object"s position with time. Rotational motion is different, it is a change of an object"s angular position. Motion diagram: a composite photo, showing an object"s position at several equally spaced instants of time. Trajectory: the path along with an object moves, whether straight or curved: using motion diagrams we can define concepts such as rest, constant speed, speeding up, and slowing. Includes the three types of motion: linear, circular, and projectile down in terms of how an object appears in a motion diagram. Motion of an object as a whole is not influenced by an object"s size and shape. It really focuses on the motion of a single point on the object, thus we treat an object as if it were concentrated into this single point.