Motion Related to Constant: Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration
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These graphs represent the motion of the three objects. |
In this movie, you see an object with a constant displacement, a similar object with a constant velocity, and a similar object with a constant acceleration (experiencing a constant net force). Obviously the object with a constant displacement does not move at all. The object with a constant velocity has the same change in displacement every second. This can be seen by the equal spacings between each image of the red ball. The object with the constant acceleration has an increasing change in displacement as a result of the constantly increasing velocity. This can be seen by the increasingly increasing (word repeated intentionally) spaces between each image of the blue ball.
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