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Module 1: Kinematics

Motion in a Straight Line

9 sections · about 4 min · Physics

What you’ll cover

  • Rectilinear motion: uniform and uniformly accelerated motion
  • scalar vs vector quantities
  • distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration
  • instantaneous vs average velocity
  • relative velocity of two objects along the same line
  • displacement–time, velocity–time and acceleration–time graphs
  • equations of uniformly accelerated motion (v = u + at, s = ut + ½at², v² = u² + 2as)
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