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    This document provides an introduction to one-dimensional kinematics. It defines kinematics as the study of motion without considering its causes. Kinematics comes from a Greek term meaning motion and is related to cinema and kinesiology. This chapter will examine the simplest type of motion - motion along a straight line or one-dimensional motion. It introduces the topics that will be covered, including displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration. Motion in two or more dimensions will be covered in subsequent chapters.

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    This document provides an introduction to one-dimensional kinematics. It defines kinematics as the study of motion without considering its causes. Kinematics comes from a Greek term meaning motion and is related to cinema and kinesiology. This chapter will examine the simplest type of motion - motion along a straight line or one-dimensional motion. It introduces the topics that will be covered, including displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration. Motion in two or more dimensions will be covered in subsequent chapters.

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    This document provides an introduction to one-dimensional kinematics. It defines kinematics as the study of motion without considering its causes. Kinematics comes from a Greek term meaning motion and is related to cinema and kinesiology. This chapter will examine the simplest type of motion - motion along a straight line or one-dimensional motion. It introduces the topics that will be covered, including displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration. Motion in two or more dimensions will be covered in subsequent chapters.

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    Introduction to One-Dimensional Kinematics

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    Figure 1: The motion of an American kestrel through the air can be described by the bird's displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration. When it ies in a straight line without any change in direction, its motion is said to be one dimensional. (credit: Vince Maidens, Wikimedia Commons)

    Objects are in motion everywhere we look. Everything from a tennis game to a space-probe yby of the planet Neptune involves motion. When you are resting, your heart moves blood through your veins. And even in inanimate objects, there is continuous motion in the vibrations of atoms and molecules. Questions about motion are interesting in and of themselves: How long will it take for a space probe to get to Mars? Where will a football land if it is thrown at a certain angle? But an understanding of motion is also key
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    to understanding other concepts in physics. An understanding of acceleration, for example, is crucial to the study of force. Our formal study of physics begins with

    considering its causes.

    kinematics

    which is dened as the

    study of motion without

    The word kinematics comes from a Greek term meaning motion and is related
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    to other English words such as cinema (movies) and kinesiology (the study of human motion). In onedimensional kinematics and Two-Dimensional Kinematics we will study only the

    motion

    of a football, for

    example, without worrying about what forces cause or change its motion. Such considerations come in other chapters. In this chapter, we examine the simplest type of motionnamely, motion along a straight line, or one-dimensional motion. In Two-Dimensional Kinematics , we apply concepts developed here to study motion along curved paths (two- and three-dimensional motion); for example, that of a car rounding a curve.
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