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AP Physics 1 - Kinematics in One Dimension

What you will learn in this course

Contents of this course (4:16)

Basic Definitions - Position, displacement, speed & velocity

Understanding the position of an object (5:42)
Difference between distance traveled and displacement (5:58)
Difference between speed and velocity (15:50)
Quantifying direction (7:58)
Objects not moving in a straight line (19:00)
Scalars and Vectors (8:33)

Understanding acceleration

What is acceleration and what does its sign mean? (16:48)
Relationship between speed, velocity and acceleration (11:02)

Working with graphs of position, velocity and acceleration

Getting velocity from the position vs time graph (13:33)
Getting acceleration from the velocity vs time graph (9:28)
Going backwards from acceleration to velocity to position (12:37)

Summary

Summary of concepts in Kinematics

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