3.1 Position and Velocity Vectors

Answers to the review questions for the end of Chapter 2. To enlarge the image, all you need to do is click on it.

So I have been out of the game for a little while due to some school work that needed to be done. But now I am back and ready to work.

We are now onto another basic yet fundamental function of physics. Position, velocity, and acceleration vectors.

Position vectors relate to a particle at a point in time (pretty basic huh?)

Velocity vectors have to do with a particle moving toward one position to another over a change in time. Basically it is the change in position over a change in time.

However velocity has a little twist to it. This is twist is called instantaneous velocity. Instantaneous velocity represents the limit of the average velocity as it approaches zero in relation to the change in position in time.

I will post the next set of lecture slides late today on acceleration vectors.



Mark Jackson
Physics/Political Science student
Metropolitan State University of Denver