Essestial Questions
1. What are the components of a full description of an object’s motion?
2. How are position, velocity, and acceleration related?
Essential Standard
PSc.1.1 Understand motion in terms of speed, velocity, acceleration, and momentum.
Clarifying Objective
PSc.1.1.1 Explain motion in terms of frame of reference, distance, and displacement.
PSc.1.1.2 Compare speed, velocity, acceleration, and momentum using investigations, graphing, scalar quantities and vector quantities.
Unit Vocabulary
Position
Displacement
Distance
Velocity
Speed
Acceleration
Momentum