“Distance and

Displacement”
I. Motion
A. Movement – change in position
B. How do you know something moves?
Motion is a relative term
1. You can see it happening (observe)
2. Use a frame of reference
a. Sun, moon, stars
b. People standing beside the road
c. Cars moving down the hi-way
d. Seasons – warmer and colder
temps
 II. Distance vs.
A. Displacement
Distance – length between two points
1. Use appropriate units…
a. Ex: Mississippi River
Appropriate – 3780 km
Inappropriate – 3,780,000,000,000 μm
B. Displacement – length between two points
and the direction of motion (vector)
1. Ex: 5 miles north of Rock Rapids
2. Shortest length between points start and
finish
Similar to fig. 4 on page 331 in textbook
Speed
I. Speed
A. Def - How fast something moves
(rate of change)
B. Requirements for speed
1. Distance traveled – 30 meters, 30
miles, 30 inches.
2. Time – how long it took to move a
certain distance. – 3hrs, 3 min, 3 ms.
C. Calculating speed
1. Formula =
Speed = Distance V=
Speed
Time D=
Distance
T = Time
D. 3 Types of Speed
1. Instantaneous speed = speed at one
moment
a. Ex: Pg. 334 – What is the
instantaneous speed according to
the speedometer?
 35 mph
2. Constant Speed = speed that does
not change over a period of time.
a. Ex: setting the
Car Ride to School
cruise on a car at
55 mph. 70
60
50
b. Ex: What is the 40

Speed (mph)
30
constant speed of 20
the car in the 10
following graph? 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
55
60
Time (Sec)
3. Average Speed
a. Def – the total distance
divided by the total time.
b. Ex: A deer walked 5 m in 10
min, 8 m in 23 min, and 7 m in 7
min. What was its average speed?
5+8+7=20 meters
 10 + 23 + 7 = 40 min
 formula v = d/t
20 meters / 40 min
 .5 meters / min
E. Distance Time Graph
1. Def – seeing the motion of an object
over time.
Water Aerobic Distance (meters)
Distance (m)

1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
0 20 40 60 80
Time (min)
 Assignment 11.2 –
separate sheet of paper
1. A car traveled 325 km in 4.5 hours. What
was its average speed in km/hr? What was
its72.2
average
km/hr speed
20 m/s in m/s?

412.52.
km A train speed along at 50 km/h for 8.25
412,5500m
hours. What was its distance in412,500,000
km? Whatmm
was its distance in meters? What was its
distance in mm? 12.9 hours
3. How many hours would it take for a car to
travel 450 km at a rate of 35 km/hr?
4. Read 11.3 “Acceleration”.
 II. Speed vs. Velocity
A. Use same formula
 velocity = distance / time
B. Uses different labels
Speed – how fast something moves
1. Ex: a tornado is moving 15
mph.
Velocity – how fast something moves
in a certain direction.
1. Ex: a tornado is moving 15 mph
to the north.
 C. Examples
1. 2 motorcycles traveling down the
Speed interstate in opposite directions at 70
mph? Speed / Velocity?
Velocity2. 2 bikers traveling 70 mph along a path in
the same northern direction?
Speed / Velocity?
3. 2 walkers walking down the road side by
Speed side at 5 mph?
Speed / Velocity?
4. What is the velocity of an object that
travels 70 miles in 1.5 hours from Rock
46.7 mph
Rapids towards SiouxSouth
City?
D. In class Questions
1. What is the velocity of an
airplane that is traveling from
Mexico to Canada. It traveled 1400
miles in 4.5
311 hours?
mph North

2. What is the velocity of a tornado

that is traveling from Omaha to Des
Moines. It took 5.75 hours and
34.8 mph East
traveled 200 miles?
Chapter 11
Lesson 3
Acceleratio
n
 I. Acceleration (11.3)
A. Def – rate of changing velocity
1. Ex: a dragster
 idle  green light  leaps
forward  faster  faster  drag
chute  slower  slower  stops.
2. Change of Velocity
a. Speed changes
b. Direction changes
B. Formula
1. Acceleration =
velocity(final) –
velocity(initial)

time
2. *Always squared*
 m/s2, mph2, km/hr2…
C. Examples
1. A car’s velocity changes from 0
m/s to 30 m/s 10 seconds later.
Calculate the car’s average
acceleration.
30 m/s - 0 m/s
10 sec
 3 m/s2
D. In Class Problems
1. As a roller coaster starts down a
hill, its speed is 10 m/s. 3 seconds
later, its speed is 32 m/s at the
bottom of the hill. What is the roller
coaster’s acceleration?
2. A bullet is fired from a gun. Its
final velocity is 750 m/s. It traveled
this distance in 0.75 seconds. What
is the bullets acceleration?